Minecraft brought us
:.|:;… Who’d have thought it.:.|:;Wait it’s all punctuation???
:.|:;Ohh my god
Oh I’m stealing that
I read it as “I’m at a loss for words.” right off the bat before I even realized what it was.
Clearly I have ascended to a higher plane of meme-istance
Congratulations, you are now allergic to grass.
:.|:;Outstanding work, I will be using this
:.|:;HOLY SHITThe hero has read a most unsettling passage
:.|:;If only
treasurecommon sense could staunch the flow of otherworldly corruption…
:.|:;holy molly
:.|:;Holy shit
Is this loss?
There’s even a proper stroke order
“first and only Kanji”.
If English had other logograms, I 🤔 what they’d be?
8==>~
People forgetting about “&.”
🤔💡😒
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Aren’t emojis pictograms and ideograms but not usually logograms? They’re direct depictions of concepts, not usually direct stand-ins for words like logograms are.
Better examples of logograms in English I think are &, $, %, @,+,=, etc. We actually have a bunch we use all the time.
Specifically they said ‘Kanji’, though, so I think they’re talking more about the actual character structure of
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(.)(.)
Well, no. It wouldn’t be the first kanji of English. Kanji is the Japanese pronunciation of 漢字 (hanzi), where 漢 means han/China and 字 means character/letter. Ergo, it makes no sense to call it “the English language’s first and only Chinese character.”
If you need to use a Japanese word to describe this, then 絵文字 (e mo ji; picture, character/symbol) fits better, but we already have several words for that, like pictogram or pictograph. One could argue that smileys fall into this category as well. So perhaps it’s a smiley.
The etymological fallacy…
I bet you’re fun at parties
Learning random cool stuff like this is part of why I like lemmy, and why I used to like reddit. Please don’t shut down constructive contributions with low effort snark. And before you use your line on me, if I were fun at parties, I would get off lemmy and go to parties.
There is a difference between “btw etymological this used to mean that but since X we use it in other contexts as well” and “no, you are wrong”. The difference is one is fun at parties, the other is not.
:.|:;I wonder, why they mentioned highlight,
:.|:; and strikethrough works
highlight the text and click the strikethrough button
Ah, that’s what they meant
:.|:;Edit: cool
:.|:;Thanks for the instructions. Have a high five followed by a fist bump.
! !|!!And this one of a nuclear bomb exploding. Followed by a person being hit by the shock wave.
https://www.upsidedowntext.com/unicode
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