Emoji are showing up as evidence in court more frequently

Post by jerf » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 2:28 PM UTC

iamcurious wrote: post #60

jerf wrote: post #55

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To the entire thread below this, to understand what people around you are doing, you need to understand that there are elements of human communication in which people are deliberately ambiguous . (Not always conciously , but quite deliberately .) It's a huge element of all of the standard human courtship rituals (all the real ones, not the ones that people claim to be using), it's used to speak in plausibly deniable…

Hey Jerf, maybe this helps. A good recipe for laughter, is to mix a danger signal with a safety signal. The signals might be physical, like almost falling or tickles. The signals might be grammatical, puns (mistaking one word for another). The signals might be social, things that almost can't be said. I'm sure you can think of examples. Now, always send safety signals ahead, first build trust and pay attention to how…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 2:36 PM UTC

cookieswumchorr wrote: post #45

anoncake wrote: post #24

> 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…

emojis are not something strictly defined. They vary across messaging platforms and clients, or versions of clients. Sometimes it means that the person sending them sees a different image then the recepient, which also can lead do different interpretation

Post by iamcurious » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 2:38 PM UTC

jerf wrote: post #61

iamcurious wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey Jerf, maybe this helps. A good recipe for laughter, is to mix a danger signal with a safety signal. The signals might be physical, like almost falling or tickles. The signals might be grammatical, puns (mistaking one word for another). The signals might be social, things that almost can't be said. I'm sure you can think of examples. Now, always send safety signals ahead, first build trust and pay attention to how…

That is good, thanks. I wonder if there is a pre-existing manual for this sort of thing already published? A quick Amazon search didn't produce anything I was looking for.

Post by argos » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 2:52 PM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #62

jstanley wrote: post #57

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One problem with emojis is that they represent different graphics on different clients, which can subtly change the apparent meaning.

Yeah. The gun emoji being a water gun on Apple platforms is a prime example of this—I'm almost surprised there hasn't been a news story yet where a playful "Bring your :gun: to school tomorrow for water day" was badly misinterpreted due to platform differences.

Post by anoncake » Wed, Apr 03, 2019, 4:19 PM UTC

cookieswumchorr wrote: post #45

anoncake wrote: post #24

> 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…

emojis are not something strictly defined. They vary across messaging platforms and clients, or versions of clients. Sometimes it means that the person sending them sees a different image then the recepient, which also can lead do different interpretation