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Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoby 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
h3mlocke@lemm.ee 1 month ago
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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.)
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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.