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Frowning Poo and 66 Other New Emojis Proposed for Potential Release in 2018's Unicode 11
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The Google Keyboard has a good search function for this. But agree Apple should have it built in as well.
It will not be long before we have the frowny puddle of poo diarrhea emoji.
My mate Jeremy said the poo was meant to be angry before he suggest it be sad instead and now I will never forgive him for vetoing the definitive Trump emoji.
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You can type the word and auto-complete will suggest the emoji. Or even after typing it all, when you switch to the emoji keyboard iOS will highlight words that can be replaced with emojis. The functionality is pretty much already there.
Funny, I've been thinking that the vBulletin ones were actually better. Nostalgically (for me) pixelated, sometimes animated (fave: slamming head against wall), often customized to the vB forum (e.g. great driving ones over at Audizine), and in many cases more expressive. Look at the ones here and conpare them to the hi-res but relatively vanilla ones in the keyboard.
In the context of a signature on a forum, which I've been a member on for years then.. I don't see it entirely in the same context as something pushed as a selling point on mobile devices for the last couple of years, and as something to base an entire movie off. But point taken.
Because the Chinese characters (hànzì) are practically arbitrary representations while the meaning of modern emojis are intuitive. Keep in mind that emojis were created by a culture which already used logograms, so clearly there is value in a non-languge specific representations
The whole emoji idea is running out of hand. Out of billion's of people on the planet there will always a few (=millions) complaining that their race, their house, cars, their pets (and currently, their poo) aren't represented.
And they will never be, because the development of ancient languages has learned us that there are just too many objects on the planet to be uniqiely depicted by symbols (or icons, for that matter) which ultimately lead to characterisation in words.
I hope we don't have to go through that learning curve again.
I suggest that we disassemble the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee and offer them a decent job in rural farming or alike where they can relive the development curve that they strive for.
And they will never be, because the development of ancient languages has learned us that there are just too many objects on the planet to be uniqiely depicted by symbols (or icons, for that matter) which ultimately lead to characterisation in words.
I hope we don't have to go through that learning curve again.
I suggest that we disassemble the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee and offer them a decent job in rural farming or alike where they can relive the development curve that they strive for.
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