Is that a Mickey Mouse Blowing a Trumpet? - I still don't understand the popularity of emoji... | /en/2020/02/on-emoji/

Guest *Emil Hvitfeldt* @ 2020-02-17 18:54:21 originally posted:

No offense taken 😄

Guest *Liechi Zhang* @ 2020-02-18 05:43:57 originally posted:

Since we have emojis, conversations never "naturally end" without them.

@liechi

Guest *urs wilke* @ 2020-02-25 12:35:34 originally posted:

The benefit of using emojis is probably to better catch the
attention of twitter users who skim over their news feed without paying much attention.

Guest *Mara* @ 2020-02-25 14:07:06 originally posted:

There's an interesting book by Gretchen McCulloch called Because Internet. I particularly enjoyed the chapter on the linguistics of emoji, and how they relate to other forms of communication. When we speak face-to-face we often use gestures, including: emblem gestures (gestures with a specific meaning, e.g. thumbs up), co-speech gestures (movement of hands and arms that accompany speech), etc.

What I found most compelling was the argument that emojis complement our words by giving cues to our intentions that would otherwise be expressed by gestures, intonation, or facial expressions. Based on feedback, such as yours, I've tried to change my such that they are enhancements, rather than replacements. When I use emojis in lieu of words, I try to use them only to take place of phatic expressions—ones that don't have a particular purpose or meaning, but that we use to establish cultural norms/politesse.

• This is a nice little guide to gesture types, if anyone's curious.

Guest *shimmy1996* @ 2020-04-07 02:31:05 originally posted:

It is actually a lot of fun reading through the Unicode documents that details how some of the symbols were conceived - this applies to not just emojis, but also all the weird glyphs one can find in in Wingdings, which was, and always will be, the best part of MS Word in my opinion.