Comment on Why 🤷‍♂️ do users 👨‍💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭?

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  (╯°□°)╯︵ 🤸

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  • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol, I like that. xD

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    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      (👁 ͜ʖ👁)

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• klemptor@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  YES, emoticons are so much better than emojis!

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  • Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re objectively not.

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    • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are not objectively better or worse overall, though one or the other may be objectively better in individual contexts.

      Individual people may prefer one over the other, though. I am one of them.

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      • Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In what context where both are available are emoticons objectively better?

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    • h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      😾

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    • don@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ❌

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  by definition they should really be the same though or at least both qualifying as emoticons. emoji are more icons than emoticons are, and the translation from japanese is literally just picture letter/symbol

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  • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I never said emoticons are icons.

    • Emoji are picture-like and each one is a single-glyph.

    • Emoticons are not picture-like but resemble letters or punctuation, and are typically composed of multiple glyphs to make a coherent whole.

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  • h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🙅‍♀️

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  • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I never claimed emoticons are icons, and honestly, I don’t see how they being or not being icons is even relevant to their definitions.

    It’s not about what is or is not an icon, but how many individual glyphs comprise them: all emoji are their own Unicode codepoints, each a single glyph; meanwhile, all emoticons are composed of combinations of multiple glyphs.

    For example:

    🙂 is one glyph.

    :) is two glyphs, : and ).

    (Annoyingly, that would also mean kaomoji, despite ending with the “-oji” affix, would also be technically emoticons. But that more a peculiarity of orthography than a contradiction.)

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• Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have nothing to add but Cartman

  (((>.<)))

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