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Somehow I'm not convinced that it's better to convey my message by writing "I am flirting with you" rather than by just adding a winking or smiling emoji.
You could literally replace that emoji with the well known phrase "wink, wink." It is well understood and avoids the ambiguity of emoji.
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How is the phone any less immediate that text messages? If anything, it's even more - you don't even need to press "send".
A phone conversation is understood to be free flowing. It's easier for us as humans to understand that someone is reasoning out a line of logic in real time over the phone. By contrast, a text is not real time, and should therefore be thought out before sending.
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There's one very popular emoji I particularly hate: https://emojipedia.org/face-with-tears-of-joy/ . Why? Because a) it looks bad (one of the worst made emojis out there), and b) when someone sends it to me, I have no clue what they mean. While it's technically "crying with joy", it also resembles crying with despair - and with regular people, who don't even know what "emoji" is or that they have names, I can't be 10…
Oh dear. I've seen this website before, but hadn't thought of it for too long. My favourite emoji is Apple's rendering of Zany Face: https://emojipedia.org/grinning-face-with-one-large-and-one-... I find some of those ... disturbing.
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But the context here are conversation which appear in the court records. So they're either breaches of a civil agreement, or criminal law. By all means use them in your day to day conversations, but if you expect your messages to ever require interpretation in a court of law, and you don't want a jury to decide what you meant by eggplant, kissy face , don't use emoji. Or, conversely, if you want to be ambiguous, like…
I don't think the couple in Israel looking for an apartment ever expected their messages to require interpretation in a court of law. Sure, writing contracts with emojies is probably ill-advised, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
And I suspect the Israeli couple didn't think texts were serious, like an email would be. But the court decided otherwise.
> Despite the potential for emoji to be interpreted in a wide array of ways, emoji experts don’t really exist. “Emoji usually have dialects. They draw meaning from their context. You could absolutely talk about emoji as a phenomenon, but as for what a particular emoji means, you probably wouldn’t go to a linguist. You would probably go to someone who’s familiar with that community, just like they did with the sex tra…
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A phone conversation is understood to be free flowing. It's easier for us as humans to understand that someone is reasoning out a line of logic in real time over the phone. By contrast, a text is not real time, and should therefore be thought out before sending.
Fair enough, but that's only a reason to think out those text messages, not to avoid the medium. I occasionally keep drafts on my messaging apps for days, as I mull them over.
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But the context here are conversation which appear in the court records. So they're either breaches of a civil agreement, or criminal law. By all means use them in your day to day conversations, but if you expect your messages to ever require interpretation in a court of law, and you don't want a jury to decide what you meant by eggplant, kissy face , don't use emoji. Or, conversely, if you want to be ambiguous, like…
And how do you determine ahead of time with 100% certainty that your communication will not be subject to subpoena and appear in court record? In a divorce proceeding for example many so called “day to day” conversations will suddenly be open to legal interpretation.
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You could literally replace that emoji with the well known phrase "wink, wink." It is well understood and avoids the ambiguity of emoji.
There are places beyond the English-speaking world. As far as I know, there's no equivalent to "wink, wink" in my native language.
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Fair enough, but that's only a reason to think out those text messages, not to avoid the medium. I occasionally keep drafts on my messaging apps for days, as I mull them over.
And if you think them out, then that's fine. But a lot of people think texts are hyper-casual and don't give them appropriate consideration.