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Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

jazzyb wrote: post #66
katurian wrote: post #56

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I'm with you. I put a space between the : and the ) to prevent the graphic emoji : )

Pasting bash snippets into chat is so frustrating when clients try to render emojis :/

Fortran also suffers from this problem:

real, intent(in) :: f(:,:,:)

Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

hueving wrote: post #48
kenbellows wrote: post #37

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Past the point where we thought that ideas should be or even can be segmented into those interesting to women vs those interesting to men, which is a rather silly idea rooted in gender unfounded stereotypes and possibly a bit of sexism.

We're not even close to past that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women%27s_magazines https://m.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes It's still acceptable to categorize clothing stores by sex as well.

"The new fragrance, for her"

"Manpurse" (as in, saying "purse" implies "woman")

Razors for men and for women, exactly the same thing but one is pink, one is blue

Bicycles for women with different frames (because they always wear skirts, y'know)

Running shoes for women (pink) and men (blue)

I could go on...

Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by rdiddly »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #78
cholantesh wrote: post #31

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Emojis are stunningly ugly to me, though I did appreciate throwing out the custom doge and Doom space marine ones at random when my team used Slack.

I think it's a cultural thing - or more precisely, a non-culture-specific thing, which should be as unoffensive as possible. Honestly, I don't envy those that design and publish emojis, it's a cultural minefield. :-) has no color, gender, outfit or what-have-you. There's been a lot of debate about the skin tone of e.g. the thumbs up emoji (which now comes in half a dozen colors if the relatively ambiguous / non-human…

The smiley is an efficient general-purpose abstraction of reality; the emoji is a million instances of copy-pasted overly-specific code.

Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by iSnow »

tetraodonpuffer wrote: post #12
nathancahill wrote: post #6

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

would be interesting to know where that one started...

I am guessing, but I'd suspect one of the better known imageboards like 2Chan, 4Chan or Ylilauta.

Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by Qiasfah »

paler wrote: post #42
gberger wrote: post #36

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I don't understand "{#}" and "\__/". Are they supposed to be arbitrary markers, or interpreted in some way?

{#} would be a grinning mouth with teeth showing, and \__/ is a smiling mouth.

Interestingly, I've seen \_/ used these days to refer to a dumpster.

Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by jobigoud »

rdiddly wrote: post #85
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #78

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I think it's a cultural thing - or more precisely, a non-culture-specific thing, which should be as unoffensive as possible. Honestly, I don't envy those that design and publish emojis, it's a cultural minefield. :-) has no color, gender, outfit or what-have-you. There's been a lot of debate about the skin tone of e.g. the thumbs up emoji (which now comes in half a dozen colors if the relatively ambiguous / non-human…

The smiley is an efficient general-purpose abstraction of reality; the emoji is a million instances of copy-pasted overly-specific code.

Emojis are in Unicode. They aren't parsed or converted to multiple glyphs anymore, the text editor will provide them directly.

http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

I was doubtful of emojis at first, but now I'm loving the concept. They really help me communicate emotions that I wouldn't put into actual words. Smileys can't really do that.

Culturally I see it as a the first universal (limited) language, using standardized ideograms. Maybe in a few decades we can express full sentences and we will have a written language for all Humans to use. 21st century hieroglyphs.

Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by gberger »

Qiasfah wrote: post #87
paler wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

{#} would be a grinning mouth with teeth showing, and \__/ is a smiling mouth.

Interestingly, I've seen \_/ used these days to refer to a dumpster.

I've seen \,,/ to refer to the "rock" hand gesture.

Re: Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed

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Post by sippeangelo »

jgw wrote: post #27

It makes me a bit of a luddite (and a heck of a curmudgeon), but it always makes me a little sad when good ol' ASCII smileys are rendered all fancy-like. There's something charming and hackerish about showing it as a 7-bit glyph. I think the Internet fundamentally changed when that happened. Tangentially-related, I can't fathom why someone would post YouTube videos of `telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`.

My biggest problem with this is when the images auto-replacing your text emotes convey a completely different expression, and you have no control over it.

Skype is the worst offender, where for example the ":3" cat-face gets replaced by an image of a whole cat, without a face at all. If you disable this "feature" in your options, it's only disabled on YOUR end. The receiving client will still convert your text into images, so now you have NO clue at all how the receiving party interprets your expressions.

Telegram does this RIGHT, where the conversion is done BEFORE your message is sent. If you disable it on your end, the receiver will only receive the text you intended.

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