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[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Wouldn’t you agree the perfect reply to:

Emoji are pretty dumb, but I guess I’m just an old fart about it.

…is a string of emoji? :)

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

If that was my point, it would be a great answer.

However my point is not against the usage of emojis to convey linguistic meaning, like that. (It's a bit pointless, but at least you're saying something through the emojis.)

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Are you a linguist? Fabulous descriptive capabilities you have there.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Well of the three usages:

  • graphical echo ("I saw a cat today 🐱")

  • mood/attitude particles (“I wish I were just a cat 😕”)

  • ideographic usage ("I saw a 🐱 today")

The echo is almost certainly the least useful.

When overused gratuitously, it can be funny (NSFW examples included)!

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

That overuse feels a lot like a fourth category. It's almost meta-, as if using emojis to parody emoji usage!

I'm not sure if it's usage for echo or as mood particles makes me roll my eyes the most. Perhaps echo, too.

Are you a linguist? Fabulous descriptive capabilities you have there.

More like "ability to remember vocab from uni times" (My second grad included Linguistics, although I don't work on the field nowadays.)

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