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Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

#51

The popularity of Emoji to me is not good for communication. Instead of careful and clarity in writing, people choose Emoji to respond to what needs to be more clarified. So, if it's hard to express your thought, let's pick an Emoji!? At work, this leads to more trouble in writing. Most of JIRA tickets are mostly non-existent that it's badly written, confusing to the developers and rest of the team. Emoji might be ju…

Emojis are fast, easy and universally understood, especially across language barriers. Not all responses between humans need to be written in prose. Using images has been and will continue to be a significant way for humans to communicate with.

You missed the point here. Instead of a clear explanation in written form, people think an emoji is enough, which is a problem. As the author doesn't want to know how other 're feeling , they want to know their thoughts instead.

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

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post #5

I love the idea, but the algorithm for scaling seems a bit off. For example, it shows the human as much larger than the car.

I think it’s by height in which case it makes sense… maybe.

Some seem by height and some by width, and some make no sense at all.

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

#55
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think some measurements are widths and some are heights.

I think they're actually all by height, and if you google them the OP actually matches up. e.g. googling "duck height": 20 – 30 in (51 – 76 cm) "goat height": 16 – 23 in (40 – 58 cm) Maybe it would be better to do them by mass.

Is your mouth height 15cm/6in?

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

#56

Goat: 45cm Duck: 50cm Might as well say “shuffled emojis with random data attached”

Arm: 30cm. I think my arm is bigger than that. And fire: 40cm. This seems somewhat arbitrary lol

Let's play picky:

In anatomy, the arm is the part between the elbow and the shoulder. Below the elbow is the forearm.

With that in mind, 30cm for the arm is definitively a sound measure... and the name of the emoji is wrong. On every phone, keyboard and app.

tl;dr; what is commonly called arm is in fact arm + forearm. Don't blame the author for being correct.

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