Predicted in the Diamond Age, it was called "mediaglyphs" I believe. (Or was that in Anathem?)
Also in Greg Bear's Eon series, where as I recall they were referred to as picts.
Will emoji become a new language?
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Re: Will emoji become a new language?
#12Why is this even a question asked? It's child-like gibberish!
Why do you believe this to be true? Emojis convey meaning, often more concisely than other written language.
Re: Will emoji become a new language?
#13Haven't emoji been huge in Japan and neighbouring countries for a long time now? They already are a language, but now it's spreading to western culture.
Re: Will emoji become a new language?
#14Predicted in the Diamond Age, it was called "mediaglyphs" I believe. (Or was that in Anathem?)
It's Diamond Age, and they were "mediaglyphics".
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/290233-what-are-letters-kin...
Re: Will emoji become a new language?
#15A bit of click-baiting here, however it is quite interesting how long before :) or ;) etc. become widely accepted eg. in newspapers (assuming that newspapers don't go extinct first).
> eg. in newspapers
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/12/us-todays-faceb...
Re: Will emoji become a new language?
#16Why is this even a question asked? It's child-like gibberish!
Looks like squares to me.
Re: Will emoji become a new language?
#17A bit of click-baiting here, however it is quite interesting how long before :) or ;) etc. become widely accepted eg. in newspapers (assuming that newspapers don't go extinct first).
I want news in news papers, not the associated emotions of the journalist. Emotions should be kept far away from news, anything subjective should be. Maybe it would work for certain magazines? Still, adding a crying face to a sentence like "Susan lost her first 5 babies" seems horribly inappropriate, this can change of course.
Re: Will emoji become a new language?
#18If they will, it will be not much easier to master than Chinese.
Re: Will emoji become a new language?
#19A bit of click-baiting here, however it is quite interesting how long before :) or ;) etc. become widely accepted eg. in newspapers (assuming that newspapers don't go extinct first).
I want news in news papers, not the associated emotions of the journalist. Emotions should be kept far away from news, anything subjective should be. Maybe it would work for certain magazines? Still, adding a crying face to a sentence like "Susan lost her first 5 babies" seems horribly inappropriate, this can change of course.
> Emotions should be kept far away from news, (..)
Yes.
> (continued) anything subjective should be.
No.
Re: Will emoji become a new language?
#20The arguments the author makes around technological constraints precluding language development seem wrong in a few ways, but I'm not that familiar with the field, so the column may be short handing more sophisticated analysis. Specifically: 1. Most (all?) written languages are linear -- they are processed sequentially by the brain and then deeper meanings are extracted (particularly wrt metaphors and allegory, but a…
>What about non-alphabetic written languages?
Some English words can already be writen without using the alphabet. For example, '2015'. I believe numerals in English are used exactly as emoji (or Chinese characters) in Japanese now: embedded inside the sentences, which are composed according to the grammar of language.
>The input difficulties of emoji today seems temporary.
It depends on language, in Japanese input methods a lot of emoji can be written exactly the same way you write rest words.