Leonardo Boiko <[email protected]>:
> 
> That's why U+1F481 INFORMATION DESK PERSON 💁 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.

🤔 Maybe, but that’s not what’s actually done.

<http://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-annotations.html> 
s/(butt|boob|phall|penis|vulva|vagina|genital|orgasm|sex|69|fart)/

<http://unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/annotations/germanic.html>

> 🍆     *eggplant | aubergine | vegetable       …
> 🍑     *peach | fruit  …
> 🌷     *tulip | flower …
> ♋     *Cancer | crab | zodiac …
> 💦     *sweat droplets | comic | splashing | sweat     …
> 💨     *dashing away | comic | dash | running  …

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