Subject: Probably mixing up the names, but . . .
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Posted on: 2022-08-30 04:09:56 UTC
I loathe the ones that are actual pictures, like the yellow face ones. I am a man of words, not pictures, so I need my text faces to be composed of actual text!
—doctorlit, feeling
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So, who uses emojis, and who uses emoticons? Do you like both? Neither? What's your favorite emoticon/emoji(s)?
--Ls doesn't use either very often.
I don't want to have to look at the Board on my phone to find out what the little black boxes are supposed to be. {= P
But that's probably something I could remedy by downloading a character set or something, and I just haven't bothered, so don't take this as a serious gripe.
~Neshomeh
I loathe the ones that are actual pictures, like the yellow face ones. I am a man of words, not pictures, so I need my text faces to be composed of actual text!
—doctorlit, feeling
: )
) :
'~'
8 D
D 8
'__'
ಠ~ಠ right now
From what I know, emoticons are actual image files, emoji are single characters that appear as images, and kaomoji are character sequences
So ^_^ is kaomoji, but :-) is... not.
Wikipedia wants emoticon to mean any text faces, with kaomoji as a subset. It also uses smiley to mean non-kaomoji emoticons, because :). It then takes emoji to mean any which are actual pictures, and describes them as evolving from emoticons (while asserting that the similar words are just coincidence).
It drags in the Wingdings font as an early example of emojis, and mentions the use of them in MSN Messenger back in the early aughts - but states that the MSN "emoji" toolbar was by the Smiley Company, and referred to them as smileys!
The only thing that's clear is that the pictoral Unicode characters, and the various replacements for them on websites (Twitter and Facebook both replace them with their own custom art) are definitely emoji, and that the whole field is deeply confusing.
hS
(PS: Kinda want to create a future alphabet which has evolved from emoji in the same way as Egyptian deimotic evolved from hieroglyphics... only problem is I don't think emoji have yet become verbal, there being no agreement on which one is pronounced "lol".)
My name was 📕🗣.
I like your idea, though.
—Ls