Comment on Whatsapp just developed a new murder weapon

• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You love me? I’ll pray for you

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That seems worse than “thank you”

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    • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Life goes downhill sometimes

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• morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  But whatsapp has had reactions forever

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• urheber@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  still don’t get it

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  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The “murder weapon” likely refers to the hurt feelings of the person making the advance.

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• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve always been torn on whether it’s supposed to be a high five or praying hands. Is thank you really a common meaning?

  Emojis are pretty hard for my autistic ass.

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  • RotSteinFinke@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s even more confusing: Emojis were invented in Japan, which adds another layer of cultural differences. Holding your hands flat against each other is a common sign for prayer in Christianity, but in Japan it is a commen gesture for giving thanks. Hence the “official” meaning: Thank you

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    • infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The official name of the emoji is simply “folded hand”. It was part of Unicode 6.0, released in 2010, codepoint U+1F64F. It’s on page 11 on the original proposal: www.unicode.org/L2/…/09026r-emoji-proposed.pdf

      I guess they deliberately named it to the neutral “folded hand” so asian people can use as thank you, while westerners as pray

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  • ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Commonly high fives arr given by the palms of the same hand therefore the thumb would’ve been visible at least on one of the hands if ot was a high five emoji

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    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      So this is how I find out I’ve also been doing high fives wrong half the time ;_;

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      • Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Language is versatile, as long as people understand which you mean, feel free to use it in whatever way works for you 🤷‍♂️

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      • ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        🥺🙏 you can submit a high five emoji idea here, but I haven’t checked if there is actually a high five emoji or whether or not it has already been submitted www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  …is that not what the 👍 is for? Or is that too obvious a ‘cool, now fuck off’ response?

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• tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s supposed to mean “thank you”? I always thought it was a begging gesture.

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  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Depends on culture I guess.

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I use it as either high five or thank you. It’s usually obvious to my interlocutor because they know my feelings towards religion

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