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iOS 13.1 Brings Design Updates for Multiple Emojis, Corrects Anatomy Issues for Animals
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As a writer and true lover of language, I hope you
take issue with the fact that the teaching of cursive handwriting has been eliminated from public education. I don’t know when this change was implemented and only found out last year in a shocking account from my daughter.
She had gone on a field trip to several museums with her fellow middle school classmates. They had an assignment to examine several historical documents, which included old diaries, and answer questions about the contents of the documents.
She was the only student in her tour group who could read the historical documents. They may as well have been written in kanji as far as her classmates were concerned. She was the only student who was able to complete the assignment unassisted. She had to help everyone else finish theirs. She had been privately educated in schools that have maintained a traditional curriculum that retains the teaching of cursive handwriting. Her peers in this particular tour group came from public schools.
I’ve asked around among friends in other states and apparently this has been the trend everywhere.
It is more alarming to me that we will have an entire generation of otherwise well educated people who can not read historical documents written in English than it is that some people throw in some smiley faces in short informal texts and emails.
It’s an inconvenience situation but I’m glad I’m not the only one with the same issue (I don’t mean that in a good way). Hoping this gets resolved as soon as possible.
Yeah, Steve would have PERSONALLY drawn all new emojis, whilst hand-coding every last iOS bug away.
*sigh*
I (like you) miss those days of 100% bug-free operating systems & Apple putting literally every employee they have on only one single task at a time..... you know, like it was under Steve!
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replacing - yes, redrawing - not so much. also clearly it's done by different people, but no one claims that it's the same team - that's not the point.
How soon will we just use emojis totally, and not use words? Let's go back to Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics! I'd like to see someone write an entire novel with just emojis.
nope, but they work for the same company that's supposed to be providing a seamless experience, no?
And again, anyone not up to date gets SCREWED and now sees empty boxes everywhere, wondering what the other person meant.. because Apple is too conceited to retroactively give emojis to past OSs.. It's called a "patch" or a simple "update" Apple. THis isn't premium stuff.. they're emojis.
Considering the breadth of apples operation they do provide a seamless experience.
yea, but you know how apple fixes issues that only exist for some people)
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Highly evolved? Are you kidding? Language has been (and always will be) a mess! Because it’s a living, changing thing! You think it’s highly evolved that the “ough” letter sequence has at least EIGHT different pronunciations? Or that the three C’s in Pacific Ocean are all pronounced differently?! What evolved about that. How about the utterly random and arbitrary uses of gender in Romance languages? Can you tell me why a table in Spanish (mesa) is feminine? Or that you have to memorize thousands of often hard to read, complex symbols to communicate in Chinese or Japanese?
Languages are fascinating and interesting but they are far from some high art form that must be protected from “dumbing down”. Languages’ job is to convey meaning, as long as it can do that, it’s doing it’s job. And while the combination of letters “happy” may convey a specific meaning to you, it means jack spit to someone who only knows Korean. But guess what? If I send this emoji 😊 I can convey meaning regardless of native tongue.
After all, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Everyone knows there are bugs in software but it is different when you can't even use mail app. Look at what people are complaining about.
Sure. I get that. It’s frustrating. But it’s also not universal. No issues with mail here for me.
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How do you know what they're about, if you don't read them?
Bet you couldn't write all that nonsense in EMOJI, I think that is what people are complaining about. You lose the intricate ability of language. Also, your meaning in EMOJI sure doesn't help a blind person. Just my 2 cents.....
I was just thinking about how dense this is going to get looking for an emoji. That was one positive of Gboard. I hope adds search!
A banjo? Seriously a banjo?? What in the world made anybody think we needed a banjo emoji added to our vocabulary??? If anybody ever sends me the banjo I may disown them.