Dragging Civilization Backwards One Emoji At A Time
Dragging Civilization Backwards One Emoji At A Time
From a thread asking opinions about emoji usage.
However it happens and whomever is responsible here we are... and we're losing ground fast. And things like emojis are leading the charge.
Should we tell them @WhyEssEff@hexbear.net is responsible?
Honestly fuck everything about that comment but especially fuck how this person seems to think that Egyptian hieroglyphics were in any conceivable way a "primitive" writing system, as opposed to a writing system so multifaceted and complicated it took the literal Rosetta Stone as well as the comparative method with Coptic and Proto-Afro-Asiatic to decipher it and understand its inner workings.
For that matter fuck that this person thinks that cave paintings are a "primitive" art form. It's like, oh wow imagine using the bumps in cave walls to create depth and the flicker of torchlight to create the illusion of animation. Imagine painstakingly manufacturing the paint used. Imagine coordinating a community effort to help document and illustrate its own oral history using iconography that we can only theorize about. Couldn't be me!
I love these dorks that say something vibes-based and subjective that they made up and act like it's the most scientific fact in the world.
Humans communicate through multiple ways, Mostly through body language. When one fails to accurately describe what we want to communicate we use the other. This is normal and I would be more concerned if we only used one form of communication.
It's just more supremacy bullshit. There always has to be something dominating to these people.
Uncritical support to @WhyEssEff@hexbear.net in her mission to personally destroy western civilization via emojis
waxes lyrical about the degradation of language, blissfully unaware that olds have been doing exactly that since the invention of the written word
doesn't know how to use whom or a semicolon
least stupid prescriptivist
Death to America
yeah everyone knows that since the advancement of language, there has never been a use for photos or illustrations
Whines about language degenerating.
Can't even use whom right.
Oh look a prescriptivist.
English isn't really a phonetic language. It's a logographic script utilizing 26 radicals to make characters. While these radicals give clues to pronunciation, English learners largely have to memorize the pronunciation of each character.
a beautifully rendered reply@WhyEssEff@hexbear.net all of your hard work does not go wasted
This person can't be more than like 14 years old.
Who knew all I needed to do to end civilization was post
when I'm happy and 
when it's time to roll out the 
@HowMany@lemmy.ml is the shitlib who was all "CHINA? DON'T THEY MAKE ALL THE WORLD'S AIR POLLUTION??" and then when I was like "hey dipshit they also make all the world's stuff" he came back like a week later with some dumb fuck comment
Defending language and human expression by arbitrarily limiting the scope of what should be considered valid language and expression.
The linguistic niche that emojis fill is the same niche that is filled by emblems, which are a powerful tool for communicating specific ideas very concisely and have existed long before the internet. If pictures are too childish and regressive for this guy, then I suppose they want a world without bright red hexagonal stop signs and railroad crossing markers and would instead prefer traffic control markers be replaced with plain text billboards containing the relevant legal codes written in plain text.
I mean, shorthand and jargon are literally everywhere in the working world and i don't think anyone'd call that a sign of civilizational decay. Your average court stenanographer would be boned if they had to write in full sentences.
Firebombing the apple servers to stop the use of emojis and thus save modern civilization.
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I N C R E D I B L E
He'a right, you know. Every man, woman, and mutant shall know The Truth About De-Evolution
The only thing that's bigger loser shit than the reactionaries wishing back a past that never existed is the losers thinking we hit peak good right now, especially for reasons that they actively participate in
Feels awfully fucking convenient to have nailed the entire concept of "language" just right as you were taught as a child, never before in 20.000 years of humanity and probably never after. You truly are god's specialiest boy, you fucking bozo
Stephen Fry is a turboliberal but he had a good segment once on Jonathon Ross' show where he addresses this.
He called this type of person an "arse whitterer".
It's fine. Deal with it.
Language is only possible and enjoyable because of ambiguity.
Otherwise we have Lojban or Ithkuil for the hyper-rationalist types. I'd actually like to have a conversation with one of them if they can really pick it up, but that's just because I'm a nasty conlanger who enjoys shit like this
That was a fun comment to find
lately there's been a lot of people in my community trying to revitalize the old writing systems that were used for nahua and maya writing. i'm far from fluent in nahutal to begin with, but its exciting to see. neither is likely to be available digitally for a long time, so i've been experimenting with using cree writing to make it a little easier for me to remember how to spell stuff. i think the old ways of writing are really beautiful and i'm happy to be a small part of bringing them back. one of the fun things about maya writing is that its really hard to describe the logo-syllabic structure in unicode so they've been creating this whole rendering engine to handle complex stuff like maya writing and egyptian hieroglyphics. probably another 10 years before it supports these systems.
this video gives a basic introduction to maya writing which has received a lot of attention. afaik nahua writing has only been regarded as "real writing" somewhat recently when the academics started to understand how it work.
alphabet writing is boring and easy to encode. give me something interesting that computers can't really grapple with. now that's advanced writing!
ctrl+f "working class" NOT FOUND
That emoji response communicates to me in a few images what would take a paragraph or maybe 2 paragraphs to explain in text. Peak human, huh
Hieroglyphics were used phonetically, smartass
eliminate the roman alphabet and make everyone write in hanzi