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Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by Sharlin »

Findecanor wrote: post #70
xbpx wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe because your entire lived experience has been reordered based on your skin color and how it isn't a light yellow color. Powerful cultural strands exist in your community to push back against constraints placed upon you because of your skin color. Maybe seeing the only option for skin color in tech be much more representative of white skin color only serves to further remove your lived reality from public debate…

Nobody has a light yellow colour. It was chosen so as to not to refer to any ethnicity in particular. BTW. If your skin actually has turned yellow then you should seek the nearest hospital emergency room ASAP, because it can be a sign of acute liver failure.

Like another commenter said in a sibling thread, yellow is still a non-dark color, and yellow characters represent white people in cartoons like The Simpsons.

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by Sharlin »

realusername wrote: post #49
vasco wrote: post #39

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Skin color emojis are the weirdest thing. I always find it slightly odd if someone changed them from the default yellow. Why would one care?

I also don't get it, it should be a system wide setting and not something the sender specifies, I don't see any point in having some additional info not representing the meaning.

Why in heaven's name should it be a system wide setting? What sense would that make?

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by kortex »

lapcat wrote: post #58
post-it wrote: post #56

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> The reductio ad absurdum is the recent Canadian legal case where the court determined that a "thumbs up" emoji signals a binding contract. Why do you believe so? If "Looks good," "Ok," and "Yup" signal a binding contract, as detailed in the case you're talking about, I contend it's perfectly reasonable for :thumbsup: to also signal a binding contract between the same parties. [0] Consider: > 5. For instance, on Jul…

> If "Looks good," "Ok," and "Yup" signal a binding contract, as detailed in the case you're talking about, I contend it's perfectly reasonable for :thumbsup: to also signal a binding contract between the same parties. I wasn't criticizing the decision in the case. I'm neither a lawyer nor a Canadian and have no opinion about that. I was criticizing the entire situation, the absurdity of emoji becoming a matter of le…

Why is the sequence of bytes representing 是的 (Shì de - yes), valid human symbolic language, but the sequence of bytes representing thumbs up "absurd" language? Nowhere in the Rules of Human Language, Volume 12023, does it say "language must comprise a fixed set of symbols that is locked in time".

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by kortex »

eloisius wrote: post #35
EarthIsHome wrote: post #30

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> I wonder if they're ever going to decide that enough emoji is enough, or will continue adding more until every word in the dictionary is an emoji. Emojis, like language, is social and will continue to change.

It’s unlike language because words can fluidly be invented or fall out of use. Emoji is designed by a committee. If it expands to include everything it will just be unusable. Why not just use pictures at that point anyway?

Oh yeah, languages are never controlled by committee

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_Fran%C3%A7aise

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by jrmg »

vasco wrote: post #39
dexwell wrote: post #5

I wonder if they're ever going to decide that enough emoji is enough, or will continue adding more until every word in the dictionary is an emoji. There have been some ridiculous inclusions in the past years despite more obvious candidates that are still missing. The great thing about emoji used to be the constraints, which made for a clear overview of available emoji and made people use the limited set in creative w…

Skin color emojis are the weirdest thing. I always find it slightly odd if someone changed them from the default yellow. Why would one care?

I am white. I kept mine yellow for a long time.

Then I noticed that most of the non-white people I knew were changing them - and actively celebrating when new skin-color variants were added.

I realized that by keeping mine white I was not being ‘color-blind’, I was, at least to some, saying something like ‘I’m happy with the default because I think it adequately represents me’. Perhaps I did feel that, to be honest!

On top of that, I could even be seen as passive-aggressively saying ‘your choice to use the skin colored emoji is unimportant and/or wrong’, which is certainly not what I felt at all!

The whole Simpsons argument (emojis weren’t created in a vacuum - the Simpsons came first and there the ‘default’ yellow is obviously representing ‘white’) was in my mind a little when considering all this.

I use the second-lightest white ones now.

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by seniorsassycat »

matsemann wrote: post #8

Is there anything one need to consider when now allowing to change the directionality of certain emojis? Like, if you flip a bicycle, you can't do that naively by just flipping the image, as the chainrings should be on the right side of the bike. (Lots of leftward facing bike emojis mistakenly shows the big cog on the wrong side now, though..)

Many scissor emoji couldn't close, and ants don't have a waist - accuracy is not a core requirement of emoji.

I noticed that the flipped person with cane emoji became left handed. Will we get dominant hand modifiers and more permutations?

https://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomolo... https://wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by Name_Chawps »

dexwell wrote: post #5

I wonder if they're ever going to decide that enough emoji is enough, or will continue adding more until every word in the dictionary is an emoji. There have been some ridiculous inclusions in the past years despite more obvious candidates that are still missing. The great thing about emoji used to be the constraints, which made for a clear overview of available emoji and made people use the limited set in creative w…

I think every noun should have an emoji. Why not? I'm allowed to talk about lemons, but not limes? Why? Better that every noun has a single canonical representation.
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