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 😄
Because this isn’t a Spot The Dog book, and we don’t need little picture of all the nouns.
On their own they’re ambiguous and vague; with the matching word they’re completely redundant.
What good does it do to say “I had pizza [little picture of pizza] for lunch”?
I’ll use the occasional :) or such as befits the tone, but pointless hieroglyphics are pointless and annoying.
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Devil’s advocate. Helps ESL speakers and dyslexics. Probably bad for tts scream readers though.
What a dick 😡
What a dick 🤤
Completely different meanings
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I dislike emojis in general.
what exactly have you seen people saying when they complain? when they do it like you did in the title, it’s just too busy for my eyes, I’ve been in Discord servers where the moderators ask people to remove most of the Emojis from their username because of how annoying it is (to them apparently. I find it a little obnoxious but not enough to care).
I basically use them as tone indicators. like
omg 😭
omg 🙄
omg 🖕
omg 💀
omg 🥵
etc.
What I find interesting is that in your examples I actually find the “omg” to be the redundant part.
I see emojis as text’s substitute for body language. Body language is supposed to supplement the spoken word. Emojis should supplement the paragraph.
Trying to communicate with more emojis than text is akin to trying to communicate with more body language than spoken word.
Ever try to say something but forget the word, and you try to convey the meaning with body language instead? Overuse of emojis implies a similar lapse of thought.
Same as emoticons did, now with Unicode Consortium approval! 😁
You’re right, excess emoji usage is very Italian
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You just described the way I dance.
I haven’t specifically seen anyone go off the rails when it comes to emoji usage on Lemmy; I can only comment on my particular feelings about emoji: Like any tool, emoji can be used in ways which are confusing. However, the value of these little images conveying additional context to written text is useful. There is so much of the personal voice which is lost with written words, unadorned with body language, tone of voice, and facial expressions. Emoji are like a written solution to this issue (for those that don’t pick up on context on words alone). I am fine with the usage of emoji.
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.
My dyslexic brain gets upset with this mid-sentence emoji usage. Takes much more time and effort to read and interpret.
Are you using the opendyslexic font?
Often yes, though most sans serif fonts work well enough for me.
I looked into that font when I head about it. Peer reviewd studies seem to agree with you. It’s also mainly the size and reglar spacing that helps.
That’s indeed my experience
This font is awesome, and I cannot fathom why Apple will not let me use it even in the Books app, much less anywhere else.
Father Apple protects us from all wickedness , including autonomy and any choice unconsidered by Him, mhm.
Because they didn’t want you to read the
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Comic Sans?
Because “muhh, back in my day on irc there weren’t emojis and zoomers use them on tiktok so they’re baaaad !!!1!!11!”
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.
You know many words in any language, are borrowed from other languages right? You just used a Japanese word when you said emoji.
It’s a loan word, it’s still English
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.
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.
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.
Ngl i use emojis whenever too, i dont think anyone “hates them”, ive seen other people use emoticons too [eg, “:)”]
I hate them. Words are easy enough to misunderstand or misconstrue. Emojis take that to an entire other level.
Probably first time I met a person who hates emojis
I think it might just be the old creeping in. Kids like emojis, and they weren’t around when we were kids, so it is new and strange so I don’t like it, etc.
Using them like the title here, I hate them too. You only need a few, and they should be conveying the same emotion that the text is being written as. 😮💨
They can be pretty good at expressing sarcasm. Especially the eye roll one.
“Yeah. Because that looks good. 🙄”
the irony
I’m sorry if they’re a emojoomer and hate progress
It’s funny because I love them to death on slack. I think I prefer emojis as reactions rather than inline text. Also if you put them in line it can f*** up search
