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Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by astura »

kieckerjan wrote: post #84

Tangential, but I can hardly be the only one who thinks emoji are stuck in a preteen mindset, with poop being the naughtiest thing expressible. Which serious language has no words for sex, drugs and the tragedies that haunt a human life?

What a weird comment - there's multiple drug emojis (syringe, pill, whisky, beer, cocktail, cigarette, sake), tragedies (gravestone, sad faces, sick faces, hospital, ambulance, bandage, casket, skull and crossbones). There's even a middle finger.

The sex ones are peach, eggplant, squirt, bed, volcano, pointing finger hand followed by ok hand, lips, and love hotel.

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by NoGravitas »

qbasic_forever wrote: post #58
jareklupinski wrote: post #15

Tornado Octopus is terrifying https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%90%99+%F0%9F%8C%AA%EF%B... Tornado Cherry makes a smoothie! https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%8D%92+%F0%9F%8C%AA%EF%B...

Spider makes truly terrifying combos, like Penguin-spider: https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%90%A7+%F0%9F%95%B7%EF%B...

One of the forms the Thing took while escaping from the Antarctic base.

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by schroeding »

amelius wrote: post #103
kieckerjan wrote: post #84

Tangential, but I can hardly be the only one who thinks emoji are stuck in a preteen mindset, with poop being the naughtiest thing expressible. Which serious language has no words for sex, drugs and the tragedies that haunt a human life?

Yes, this is because emojis are created by committee. The Unicode committee to be precise. If instead emojis could be drawn and inserted in messages and maintained and shared through emoji-libraries by actual users, then we would get an actual naturally evolving language. Much more interesting.

Right, I have a hard time believing that a emoji for e.g. "love hotel" would be able to become a emoji nowadays, if it had not been grandfathered in.

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by schroeding »

thefz wrote: post #129
kieckerjan wrote: post #84

Tangential, but I can hardly be the only one who thinks emoji are stuck in a preteen mindset, with poop being the naughtiest thing expressible. Which serious language has no words for sex, drugs and the tragedies that haunt a human life?

And if I might add: why do we need multiple colors for a heart or multiple hearts? One wasn't enough? Are we going to cover all the drinks know by mankind or one generic "alcoholic" drink was okay? What about flowers? Do we need to cover them all or a generic "flower" pictogram is enough?

Most of those "weird" emojis were grandfathered in from the Japanese standard

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by schroeding »

laurensr wrote: post #123
amelius wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this is because emojis are created by committee. The Unicode committee to be precise. If instead emojis could be drawn and inserted in messages and maintained and shared through emoji-libraries by actual users, then we would get an actual naturally evolving language. Much more interesting.

That's probably also why we don't have a real gun emoji (or it's rendered as a water pistol in many places). Although guns aren't the nicest invention, they are real and sometimes need to be represented graphically.

This was so important for (american) vendors and the (more or less american) committee that they even retroactively changed the standard from "pistol" to "water pistol", in the light of (american) gun violence.

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by barking_biscuit »

schroeding wrote: post #143
amelius wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this is because emojis are created by committee. The Unicode committee to be precise. If instead emojis could be drawn and inserted in messages and maintained and shared through emoji-libraries by actual users, then we would get an actual naturally evolving language. Much more interesting.

Right, I have a hard time believing that a emoji for e.g. "love hotel" would be able to become a emoji nowadays, if it had not been grandfathered in.

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Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by pwpw »

wartijn_ wrote: post #104
donatj wrote: post #79

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I use Gboard on my Pixel phone yet I cannot figure out how to use these for the life of me

> To use it: You need an Android phone (sorry Tim Cook!!) 1. Download and install Gboard 2. Open it and set it as the default keyboard on your phone 3. In Gboard's settings check to make sure that Emoji, Stickers & GIFs > Suggestions while typing > Emoji is enabled. This is what ensures that the feature is on :-) 4. Tap two emoji in your keyboard and it suggests a combination of those two emoji https://jenniferdaniel…

> Emoji, Stickers & GIFs > Suggestions while typing > Emoji is enabled

It actually requires enabling Emoji, Stickers & GIFs > Suggestions > Emoji Stickers. I assume emoji needs to be enabled as well though.

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by xenomachina »

laurensr wrote: post #123
amelius wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this is because emojis are created by committee. The Unicode committee to be precise. If instead emojis could be drawn and inserted in messages and maintained and shared through emoji-libraries by actual users, then we would get an actual naturally evolving language. Much more interesting.

That's probably also why we don't have a real gun emoji (or it's rendered as a water pistol in many places). Although guns aren't the nicest invention, they are real and sometimes need to be represented graphically.

The pistol emoji originally looked like a real gun. I think only Windows had a fake looking gun (more of a ray gun than a water pistol) initially.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150625033351/https://unicode.o...

The change to a water pistol started with Apple in 2016, and then other companies followed:

https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-and-the-gun-emoji/

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by eCa »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #128
xnx wrote: post #44

And you can typically combine any emoji with itself to make an even more version: https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%98%88+%F0%9F%98%88=rt

drowning in your own tears: https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%98%AD+%F0%9F%98%AD=rt recursion: https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%98%80+%F0%9F%98%80=rt lenny: https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%98%8F+%F0%9F%98%8F=rt cowboy + cowboy = https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%A4%A0+%F0%9F%A4%A0=rt 100 + 100 = 1000? https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%92%AF+%F0%9F%92%AF=rt

> 100 + 100 = 1000?

There’s 10 kinds of people :)

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