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 🤓.
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
What is the "upset" emoji the youths are using?
😞☹️😫😢😰😓 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's the emoji for power dynamics
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what if Chinese radicals but everyone involved was an idiot
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