On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 2:25 AM Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote:
> Dnia 8.12.2024 o godz. 20:27:51 postfix--- via mailop pisze: > > FACT: languages are living bodies of conventions common to two or > > more individuals. Emojis are the glyphs of new languages in the > > making. I get to learn every day when my teenager communicates with > > me. Yes, it is sometimes frustrating, but the frustration is mostly > > with myself for not catching fast enough the kids' evolving slang. > > If we did travel into realms of philosophy (which your email definitely did > :)), then it is worth to note that a language is primarily something that > one speaks, not writes. Writing is secondary to spoken language. > > You cannot speak emojis, so it's not a language. At least IMHO. > > But this is far off topic for this list, I think :) > in Eon by Greg Bear <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eon_(novel)> (which notably predates emoji by quite a bit) the far future descendents of humans have a presumably mind controlled "display" allowing them to also express pictograms... its been a couple decades since I've read it, so the details are fuzzy... a discussion here <https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/e1ycqx/picts_from_eoneternity_by_greg_bear_are_a/>... though they point out that ascii emoticons did predate the book. Brandon
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