Ok, the title was an overuse of emojis as a joke. But seriously, I like some limited use of emojis because it helps me convey intention/emotion so that I’m less misunderstood and also adds some more feeling/fun to text content 😄
I predate emojis by a bit, they never really caught on with me.
I like one or two at the end of the sentence to help relay tone. As seen in:
OMG! HE’S DYING! 😂
OMG! HE’S DYING! 😭
Those are useful emojis.
The best part is when boomers can’t tell them apart. “Grandma died 😂”
Especially if they also misuse acronyms.
“Grandma died LOL 😂”
Loved out of life 👻
You only speak one language in a sentence right? How often do you switch between languages in a single sentence?
Emoji are pictograms the same as east Asian languages are pictograms.
East Asian languages aren’t pictograms. Most use phonetic alphabets. Among those that don’t, very few characters use visual resemblance to convey meaning, and no language uses primarily pictographical characters.
You know many words in any language, are borrowed from other languages right? You just used a Japanese word when you said emoji.
While true that the term originates from Japanese, it’s important to note that emoji is a loanword that has been adapted into english by changing its pronunciation subtly, and replacing its spelling with a phonetically similar one in an alphabet not used in Japanese.
This is similar to when words and phrases are used without much adaptation in the middle of sentences that are otherwise in a different language. There’s a certain je ne sais quoi about English and how it mixes loanwords (such as “calque”), calques (such as “loanword”, where individual parts of the word are translated then recombined) and entire unchanged terms (such as “je ne sais quoi”) freely, and to varying degrees depending on where you are and who you talk to.
It’s a loan word, it’s still English
Ik ben talking about using geen common words in a sentence.
That was a weird sentence right? Emoji has a common use in English where ik,ben, and geen do not.
What even is your point? Besides not acknowledging that language evolves.
I love them but that was a bit much. 🤨
I love them too 🙂
I love them too 🍆💦
If you can find mine it was hilarious when I did a similar thing XD
It’s mostly just a snobbish “get off my lawn” response based on the popularity of said emojis on platforms popular with the youths. 🦾🧐🫴
Because CoOl KiDs DonT UsE eMoTIcOns
I thought they didn’t look at explosions!
Emojis make reading slower because you’ll pay attention to both emojis and text , and try to understand it
Using one or two occasionally to convey emotion or humor is one thing, but they’re neither words not punctuation marks. Using them as such is not just annoying, but actively disrupts the rhythm of the words you’re reading - especially if they’re plunked into the middle of a sentence or clause. It’s like saying “I love HEART cheeseburgers.” Go ahead, say it that way to somebody in person and see how they react.
Lemmy has a lot of grumpy old folks who fear change so it just comes with the territory.
Odd because why would such people switch to a new platform?
Because they didn’t like the direction Reddit was heading I guess? But I don’t know the full answer. I’ve just noticed that Lemmy seems to skew older than I would have expected.
Maybe it’s just reflecting the demographics of the tech-savvy open source enthusiasts that might be interested in such a project? Are there young people with such interests still? And if so where are they?
I’m also old, just not as grumpy as some, so I don’t really know what the young people are up to nowadays. Most I know in person seem to be on TikTok and instagram but that’s not the tech crowd, if they’re out there somewhere.
One emoji is fine.
Two if you want to underline your reaction.
Three is the maximum allowed by the cringe police.
After three according to the judgement of the Oratrice Mecanique d’Analyse Cardinale you belong to the Facebook boomer jail. Enjoy the nationalist/racist/sexist/lame minion “memes”.
When I see more than three laughing emojis a sitcom laughter is automatically playing in my head. It feels like being forced to laugh at gunpoint.
Now I have that song stuck in my head again.
Hehe, that was the plan all along ;)
People who put the clapping emoji between every word should be taken to the guillotine.
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands 👏👏
This is my new emoji rulebook and I’m going to explain to it to others exactly like this.
I feel honored \(^-^)/
One thing I really hate is when people use that clap emoji between every word to try to solidify what they’re saying.
Doing that, or saying “full stop”, etc. doesn’t make me trust what you’re saying more. Explain why what you’re saying is correct. Use words, logic, and sources.
use that clap emoji
If people are clapping between words like pre-schoolers singing about Bingo the dog, it’s not accidental. It’s a last resort to prevent our phones auto-correcting everything to the phrase “you dumb motherfucker”.
I agree, though – ‘full stop’ is just jargon and useless like ‘literally’.
Made me go and check, but surprisingly lemmy doesn’t have an emojipasta community
I would have thought that one would have made the jump
Because being a contrarian is the height of personality for a lot of people here.
Because “muhh, back in my day on irc there weren’t emojis and zoomers use them on tiktok so they’re baaaad !!!1!!11!”
