Posted on 10/15/2015 5:50:51 AM PDT by C19fan
In Jonathan Franzen’s novel “Purity,” a 1970s college student having a long, captivating initial phone conversation with the woman who will capture his heart reflects, “My world had been shrinking to the size of her voice in my ear . . . It seems crucial that we had our first real conversation on the phone, which distills a person into words passing directly into the brain.” Olden days. Lately a young lady telephonically contacted by a suitor must content herself with something more along the lines of “U so hot want 2 come ovah 4 chill sesh?” Which is more or less a sonnet compared with the emoji-chatter that’s taking over from word-based texting. In an attempt to show that it, too, understands the supremacy of cutesy pictograms, USA Today last week ran emojis next to its front-page stories: surprised face for news of leading Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy bowing out of the race for speaker of the house; crying face for “U.S. hero of French train attack stabbed.”
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Maybe the ancient Egyptians using glyphs were actually so advanced it was a language in their version of all emojies. Maybe our language will change into all emojies and no text in the future. Nope.
Beyond emojis are “stickers.” I am involved in these:
https://store.line.me/stickershop/product/1196246/en
They are static for now, but the 3D will hopefully be available soon.
They are over-used right now, as we're still on the learning curve.
Soon they will settle into their proper place and sarcasm and irony will never again be mistaken for a straight up statement.
Unless the author wants the ambiguity...
I have to accept THIRTY scrips to see the video?
Not a video. When we work it out with LINE, the slight movement we have designed will be available.
None of this really matters. One X-class flare or man-made EMP, and we’re back in the stone age. People don’t realize the fragility of what we’ve built, and I would venture a guess that large swaths of civilization would self-terminate if they couldn’t use an electronic device for more than an hour.
I tend to agree but only to a point. The main reason the written word today doesn't indicate inflection or intent is because of who is doing the writing.
Proper writing is a craft. It takes thought. It takes practice. When it is hashed out by someone who does not have the education or the patience to practice and learn, then it is definitely missing something.
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Ghostery reports 30 scrips on your first link.
Agreed, yes, in most cases. In some cases the ambiguities of the English language are insurmountable. This is how we can have puns.
In the meanwhile our fast paced lives provide few opportunities for careful contemplation and precise word crafting, even if our “educational” system provided the foundation.
Emojis help fill the understanding vacuum. Language follows the same rules about vacuums that physics does...
I don’t mind emojis coming from 12 year old girls.
But never from a grown adult.
And NEVER from a male.
Guys... don’t do that. Just don’t.
OK
Use an emoji...get kicked out of Man Town.
Unfortunately, the marketing wizards have decided the most profitable demo is the brain-dead late teens/early twenties types, and this is what appeals to that segment.
Haven't you seen the commercials pushing fast food ordering using emojis?
I was going to try to remember to look "emoji" up, but the sheer number of commercials, let alone the narrow appeal, have dulled any sense of the need for closure on how ever, never mind what ever, they're trying to sell.
Is that Obama’s new nickname?
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