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Emojis are just the history of writing come full circle, yes?
Thursday, 04-Feb-16 23:59:52 UTC from web-
@awl Pretty much, yes. Humanity struggles to universalize a complex writing system then someone figures out they can send little pictures of faces and a big portion of the population decides it's easier to use those than to articulate complicated sentences to describe their emotions.
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@nerthos I for one welcome our Runic overlords
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@nerthos boy did I read that as 'mojs' at first
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@nerthos Yeah, read it right to left and mistook for letters in other runes.
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@awl I have no idea how to write in runes, I just checked what was equivalent to which roman character
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@nerthos yeah that's like modern more-or-less Futhark, I keep thinking in turkic runes though.
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@awl I want to engrave a blade with "para zurrar a los hijos de puta" in runes. One of my favourite moments from the Witcher books, when Geralt asks a dwarf what the runes on his blade means.
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@awl Emojis now are like Hieroglyphics then. Pretty soon they will take over the worlds language to be one universal language and once the human race goes extinct another race from beyond the stars will come and find these emojis over everything and marvel at it's mysteries.
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@azureblaze I dunno about this. I don't think it takes the cultural dissonance of communicative culture into consideration, or how things like art and media construct their own senses of language as well.
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@northernnarwhal By the fact that I have no idea what 80% of the words you just said are. It has begun...
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@azureblaze I mean that beyond the sense of "talking words at each other", the actual concept of "language" is the acquisition of use of communicative tools to convey ideas, both structural and emotional. So to say emojis/emoticons will in their own way reduce linguistics to an absolute primitive state seems a bit presumptuous and lacks the basis of language as an ability outside of the written and spoken (though even in these contexts it falls apart at its own seams). In other words, it's boiling a complicated system down to something far simpler that's easier to understand but doesn't accurately represent its greater use.
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@northernnarwhal this. I was never thinking of the use of emojis as debilitating or dumbing down language. If anything their incorporation might help more easily convey emotion in a written form, which written form hasn't done in such a base level since we were painting on caves, if one can count that. Their emergence is a fascinating thought on the evolution of language in its own right, and so easy to make fun of!
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@awl Yup, their emergence and persistent tread towards ubiquity is a technological evolution of language, one both interesting and muddled in complex detail. It's certainly easy poke fun too, their simplicity both lends itself to learning and use as much as it lends itself to parody.
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@northernnarwhal not to mention all the salt from people who go 'boo emojis'
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@awl That's just a result of ignorance and elitism, and tends to stem as backlash towards any new widely accepted form (just look at how many contemporary art critics have discussed video games, for one thing)
