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Re:Apple introduces macOS Mojave by stormking on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:18PM (#17231960)
That idea was dismissed several thousand years ago, and for good reason. Text is way more powerful and precise than pictures. And I'm not saying having both is a bad thing, but this focus on Emojis is just idiotic.
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Re:Apple introduces macOS Mojave by ovao on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:38PM (#17232164)
Text accompanied by images has been a staple of modern visual communication for the past several hundred years. Emojis just bring additional ways to express oneself in addition to plain text.

They augment; they do not replace.

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Re:Apple introduces macOS Mojave by wsc981 on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:00PM (#17232411)
When I chat with my Thai girlfriend, many miles away, we usually use the LINE app. We don't directly use emoji's, but we do use stickers [0] as part of our chat. And I feel stickers provide much the same use as emojis, the can more easily be used to convey emotions in a chat that would otherwise be harder to interpret correctly.

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[0]: https://store.line.me/stickershop/showcase/top/en

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Re:Apple introduces macOS Mojave by kridsdale1 on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:38PM (#17232165)
Emotional human conversation is imprecise. Tactical use of that is a skill.
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