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Will go one further: the use of emoji at all defeats the purpose of having a language and an alphabet.
by pervycreeper 8y ago
Will go one further: the use of emoji at all defeats the purpose of having a language and an alphabet.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoYou say that, and yet Egypt became an empire whose history has been saved 4000 years later thanks to a pictogram based language.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoEgyptians hieroglyphics are phonograms though, not [very loosely defined] ideograms -- I thought that was the point about their translation, that people wrongly assumed they were pictorial ideograms.
- lagadu 8y agoHow so? Why can't they be complimentary?
- Schoolmeister 8y agoAs the other comment said, why can't they be complementary? Emojis are great for handling subtext and seem to (partly) offer a solution to Poe's law. That being said, I too can't take anyone who uses emojis in his comments seriously.