Ah but that is a "majority" by a dictionary/type count. Due to Zipf's Law,
in language matters we should always distinguish dictionary counts from
actual usage. E.g. Twitter is very popular in Japan, and I think we'll all
agree that the top used kanji are predominantly modal:
Le 29/02/2016 22:55, Philippe Verdy a écrit :
So it's not the meaning, nor the technical mean by which these terms
were sent which is essential, the court will in fact want to judge
about the intent and the effective psychological nature of this
threat. What is the real intent of a 12-year old
emoji might be more accurately
translated as "pictogram"
use of the fancy Japanese term was motivated originally because it
referred to a specific
subset of pictograms (originating with Japanese mobile phone
technology).
that the word
Some are used to express emotions but many are not: food items,
animals, landmarks, activities, etc. I think the majority do not have
clear emotional referents. The original set introduced in Unicode 6.0
included things like ROASTED SWEET POTATO and TOKYO TOWER.
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 4:04 PM,
Today's Japanese emojis are (for most of them) recent inventions; may be
there are some earlier tracks in Japanese comics, but you may as well find
them in comics of America or Europe since the about the 1940's.
All these icons were *later* renamed emojis in English and Unicode, but
there's a
It's a picture-character, sure; but I'd think that, like kaomoji before
them, they've been used since the beginning to express the attitude of the
writer, a kind of "emotion" (in linguistic terms, the "mood" of the
utterance). For example, consider the ubiquitous ♥ sign, which also
predates
On 2/29/2016 1:55 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
. Well emojis were initially designed to track amotions and form a
sort of new language,
E-moji means "picture-character" in Japanese, has nothing to do (at
first) with emotions.
A./
On 2/28/2016 11:14 PM, Tex Texin wrote:
However, how any of this belongs on the Unicode list is beyond me.
Surely we do not need to comment on every use of emoji that occurs in
the media.
But there you are mistaken, my dear sir!
We are constantly told that the discussions on this list
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Girl, 12, charged for threatening her school with emojis
On 2/28/2016 9:04 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
http://abc27.com/2016/02/27/girl-12-charged-for-threatening-emojis/
"The mother says the girl shouldn’t have been charged."
In civilized countries 12
On 2/28/2016 9:04 PM, Karl Williamson
wrote:
http://abc27.com/2016/02/27/girl-12-charged-for-threatening-emojis/
"The mother says the girl shouldn’t have been charged."
In civilized countries 12-year-olds would be considered too young to
http://abc27.com/2016/02/27/girl-12-charged-for-threatening-emojis/
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