I'd say that the current icon shown by Google for that character does not mean anything to me, it lloks like a ghost of some grotesque creature, possibly dancing, unrelated to any information desk, and not even a lady (may be Google wanted it to be gender-neutral, as the character is not encoded and named to mean a woman). So I doubt seriously it will be used for its intended usage.
2017-01-25 5:44 GMT+01:00 Leonardo Boiko <[email protected]>: > Undoubtedly so. That's why U+1F481 INFORMATION DESK PERSON π is listed > with the keyword "sassy" in the Unicode emoji table (besides "tipping > hand"). Which helps a lot, because the keywords are used by input methods > to search characters; if no one bothered to keep track of how people are > using emoji, then people would try looking for the "sassy" gesture and find > nothing, and they'd have to learn that it's called "information desk > person", even though no one uses it with this meaning. > > Precisely because language (and symbolic systems like emoji) are in flux, > it's a good idea trying to document how it's used. > > > 2017-01-25 2:35 GMT-02:00 Fritz Gheen <[email protected]>: > >> "There are indeed already many emoji misused here and there..." >> >> I'd venture to say most emoji are divorced from their original intent. >> Help Desk Lady is one of the most popular emoji...and I can't recall ever >> seeing someone use it for that reason. I personally use Rocket emoji >> mostly to mean, "I'm taking-off from home." And then there's aubergine >> =) >> >> I'd like to think no emoji is "misused." People employ emoji outside of >> their original or intended meaning, and that's beautiful: language is >> fluid; it evolves. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:39 AM, Andrea Giammarchi < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I wouldn't stereotype "this community" already, as it's a single person >>> request and maybe a single person common use case. >>> >>> However, I have seen mostly on Twitter the usage of :3 to indicate >>> "engagement" in the sense of "interest", or "I'm digging it" but if there's >>> a meaning widely recognised already internationally, I guess there's no >>> point in using the proposed name, yet there's no code point to represent :3 >>> >>> isn't it? >>> >>> Whatever it means, do we have a code point for it already? >>> >>> If we do, maybe that'd be already enough. >>> >>> There are indeed already many emoji misused here and there due different >>> visual meaning in different cultures (the triumph face, as example, the one >>> with steam from nose which is used as "furious face" in some culture) >>> >>> If there's no code point, being apparently this popular, should Unicode >>> consider one? >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Leonardo Boiko <[email protected] >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> I find it curious that this community defines the ":3" emoji as "mmmm" >>>> or "om nom nom". In my circles it's quite the frequent emoticon/emoji, but >>>> I've never seen it used this way. Instead, they usually employ it as "cat >>>> mouth" or "cat face", implying the mood of cuteness, perkiness or >>>> mischievousness. (This is distinct from U+1F431 CAT FACE in that it >>>> represents a human making a cat-like mouth, not an actual cat.) Here are a >>>> few images found through a web search for "cat face": >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> β >>>> β >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> β >>>> β >>>> Here's the relevant TVTropes article: >>>> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CatSmile >>>> >>>> (TVTropes, incidentally, is one of the many web forums which has a :3 >>>> textual emoji.) >>>> >>>> And the KnowYourMeme page: >>>> http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/3-cat-face >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 2017-01-24 14:39 GMT-02:00 Andrea Giammarchi < >>>> [email protected]>: >>>> >>>>> I'd like to bring to your attention a request, about a common emoticon, >>>>> that has apparently no equivalent yet in the Emoji standard. >>>>> >>>>> This was a PR to the Twemoji project: >>>>> https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/issues/199 >>>>> >>>>> The author also created a proper PDF explaining all the reasons: >>>>> Proposal for CURLY LIPS Emoji.pdf >>>>> <https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/files/727077/Proposal.for.CURLY.LIPS.Emoji.pdf> >>>>> >>>>> I hope this can be considered in the near future as possible extra >>>>> face. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance for any sort of outcome. >>>>> >>>>> Best Regards >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
