I can’t lie. I’m enjoying the expanded selection of emojis on this forum. I do miss the little blue shocked face that used to be available. But overall I prefer the new setup.
Emojis help you get your tone across if you’re just joking or confused and might otherwise be misunderstood as arrogant or confrontational.
Jeeeeesus! You know what else helps get your tone across? A decent command of the language that you speak is a good place to start! Please explain to me where an Emojisquito will help you get a point across, or clarify the meaning which you are struggling to get across in words alone?
As other have pointed out, Emoji and their numerous in-bred offspring are a huge step backwards in linguistic terms. Many have made comparisons to hieroglyphs and I agree that written language has developed for thousands of years since then. And then came the classic "smiley face"
type abbreviations which were annoying but at least conveyed only a fairly limited range of emotions. A simple
or
at the end of a sentence could add an extra layer of detail. But having the huge range of Emojis that we do now adds nothing!
If I needed - for some reason - to talk about sloths then using the sloth Emoji doesn't add any nuance, it's just ridiculous! It probably takes longer to actually find that particular Emoji than it does to type s-l-o-t-h! Want to use the sloth Emoji to convey that somebody is slow or lazy? Sure, it
can convey that, but not everybody will interpret it the same way. Does it mean slow? Does it mean lazy? So rather than actually helping to clarify by adding nuance it can (and often does) simply create ambiguity!
So, if you cba to read the whole thing, the tl:dr version is if you sit there thinking "idk how 2 explain this properly" and you resort to Emojis to try to explain, don't be surprised if the person the other end looks at it as is all, like, "WTF? IDEK...this is stupid AF. SMH" So much for evolution...
