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Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit by Y_Y on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @01:52PM (#17560546)
Where are the emojis for pain? And why are there so many happy family emojis? People (and "corporate people") who care enough to get emojis put in by buy votes at the Unicode Club seem to have super weird values totally detached from humans who send each other messages.
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Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit by detaro on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @01:58PM (#17560603)
Have any "pain" emojis been rejected, or has merely nobody officially proposed them? (which anyone can do, no club membership required)
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Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit by paulddraper on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @03:10PM (#17561229)
IDK, but either way the end result is a system which is unuseful for expressing common ideas.
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Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit by cryptonector on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:15PM (#17562122)
In Japanese, ideographs (Kanji) are paired with syllabic characters (Hiragana) to express things which Kanji alone cannot. Foreign words are spelled in Katakana (another syllabic script). There's also romaji -- a way of writing Japanese in the familiar Latin alphabet.

Incompleteness is manifestly NOT a problem for an ideographic script.

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Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit by voxadam on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @06:10PM (#17562479)
The Unicode Consortium publishes a list of all the requests made to the Emoji Subcommittee.[1]

[1] http://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html

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Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit by pshc on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @03:22PM (#17561348)
Emojis representing states of suffering number in the double digits.
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Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit by rarec on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @01:56PM (#17560593)
I'm not sure people who would want pain emojis care enough to buy votes at the club.

Besides, at least as far as Discord/Slack goes, most people I've found just upload their own little emoticons as they are more meaningful and great for inside jokes on a particular server/team.

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Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit by kyle-rb on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @03:10PM (#17561227)
Generally my go-to "upset" emoji are upside-down-smiley, or crying-laughing plus gun (still a real gun at least in Discord).
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Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit by kanox on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @02:24PM (#17560854)
:(
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Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit by airstrike on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @02:46PM (#17561020)
3:
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Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit by lainga on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @02:33PM (#17560929)
There's no time to cry / Happy, happy!
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Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit by Semirhage on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @02:05PM (#17560673)
Maybe it’s just that people tend to use emojis for shallow, often humorous exchanges. If you have to express pain, using an emoji seems like a bizarre way to go about it rather than employing language.
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Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit by eat_veggies on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @04:11PM (#17561699)
Is that inherent to emojis, or is it a symptom of the current set of emojis being shallow and humorous?
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