Many people have argued that we should develop some extra characters to make it easier to tell from text what would normally be conveyed by the tone of voice or expression 🤔. But these have already developed on their own in the form of emojis😲, we should just make their use more culturally acceptable🤨.
This should be done immediately where it would most help the hard of hearing and neurodiverse people🙂. All movie subtitles should be legally required to have all lines end with an emoji signifying tone😐. All communication from the government or important institutions should also include them🤓.
In the long term, we should start teaching children that a proper grammatical sentence ends with an emoji of some kind before the punctuation🤔. More emojis would be developed and the set of emojis used in serious writing would be standardized💪. Easier inputting methods could be developed in the form of an emoji keyboard or perhaps something similar to the Chinese Pinyin typing system 🤓.
I'M DELETING YOU, DADDY!😭👋
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🚫ERROR!🚫 💯True💯 Daddies are irreplaceable 💖I could never delete you Daddy!💖 Send this to ten other 👪Daddies👪 who give you 💦cummies💦 Or never get called ☁️squishy☁️ again❌❌😬😬❌❌ If you get 0 Back: no cummies for you 🚫🚫👿 3 back: you're squishy☁️💦 5 back: you're daddy's kitten😽👼💦 10+ back: Daddy 😛😛💕💕💦👅👅
In 2050 this will be seen as one of the only grammatically correct pieces of text from this era, along with Cher's tweets
[Condescending Praise] It warms my heart that even a meatbag such as yourself can see the value in a superior form of speech. There may be hope for you yet.
[Clarification] If I had a heart, that is. Thankfully, I do not.
Just speak like one of the HK droids from Knights of the Old Republic
👋 hey lil 💦 piss 🍼 baby 🥺 you think 🤔 you're so 💢 fucking 😎 cool? ❄️ huh? 😤you think 🤔 you're so 💢 fucking tough? you talk 💁♀️ a lotta 🤑 BIG 🕹 GAME 🎲 for someone with such a 👌 small 🚘 truck 🚚 aww 🐰 look 👀 at those 💪 arms your 💪 arms look 👀 so 💢 fucking 🌸 cute 💕 they look 👀 like little 👌cigarettes 🚬 I bet I could 💨smoke 😤 you, I could ♨️ roast you 🔥 and then you'd ❤️ love it 💕 and you'd 📳 text 🔤 me I 💖 love 💘 you ❣️ and then 🕣 I'd 💢 fucking 👻 GHOST 🖕YOU 💀
From the title, I was hoping this post would be about standardizing English language spelling and regularizing English language verbs.
The problem with your proposal is that the emojis would develop their own meanings separate from the literal meaning. We've already seen this happen with emojis. There will be connotations to the emojis that differ from their denotations every bit as subtle as current written language. I think using emojis is fine, but I don't think it'll solve the problem you're concerned with.
Example: 💀 and 😭 both now mean very similar to 😂
A good friend is about 10 years younger than me, and I got very confused when she used 😭 for a funny situation and I thought she was upset. Are the kids using that for crying laughing these days? That would explain a lot.
Yeah 😭’s meaning is now basically exactly the same as 😂 was 5 years ago. And 💀 is “so funny I died”
I've only ever seen 💀 as a reaction to something used to imply that somebody did something stupid with bad consequences or said something dumb, or like to mean they took the L
it might be heavily context dependent. Making things more complex
😞☹️😫😢😰😓 are ones the ones I feel like I see and use, but I’m not entirely sure. I was behind the curve on the 😭 one and only learned it because I dated a girl 3 years younger lol
what if Chinese radicals but everyone involved was an idiot
In the long term, we should start teaching children that a proper grammatical sentence ends with an emoji of some kind before the punctuation🤔.
fuck you, the emoji goes after the punctuation.😠
i don't like when emojis are supplemental. i prefer when they are in the text. for example:
i looked at my boss' paystub and was like ☹️
Scott McCloud had this idea in his book Understanding Comics, but he seemed to have this weird idea that we could just go full pictogram as if emojis can't be misinterpreted, especially because emojis on different platforms can look really different. But I've thought a lot about how people used to say it's hard to get tone, especially sarcasm, from text. But emojis help with that. Especially when you have trouble understanding intent and getting jokes at the best of times.
don't movie subtitles have the context of the actors facial expressions on the screen and their tone of voice. I think if you can't get the tone from that then an emoji isn't going to help
People that are neurodivergent may have troubles figuring out what the facial expression is supposed to convey
I usually just use musical cues and the conventions of the genre to figure out what the characters are feeling instead of looking at their faces because I suck at reading people's faces.
As someone already mentioned, emojis aren't immune towards semantic drift, especially since people already use some emojis sarcastically. When a particular emoji is used enough time sarcastically, the sarcastic use becomes the new standard definition.
Wie kudd oalso start ryting in fenettik Ingglish, ez Ingglish kempryzez e veryitie ev Dyelekkts, jutilyzing e Pletthere ev Saundz (oar Foniemz); in menni Kaesez, dhiez Saundz dife bitwien Dyelekkts, rizullting in konntrediktrie Prenunnsieaeshenz, dispyt shehring dhe saem Spelling. It iz dhehrfor difikelt tu krieaet e nju Foarm ev Ingglish (spesifiklie foar dhe Purpesez ev Standedyzaeshen end Iez ev Kemjunikaeshen; ez well ez Fenettisyzaeshen) widhaut aelieenaeting Grups ev Piepel dhet juz Lettez end Saundz difrentlie tu uddhe Dyelekkts. Wie kudd ieven juz kapitelyzd Naunz lyk in Djurmen, ez demmenstraeted.
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I wrote up a 4 page document in my own brand of phonetic english entirely on company time back throughout last year, so I consider it time not wasted
