> The meaning of the words will change over time, but not the words themselves.
1. orthography also changes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s)
2. the purpose of words is to communicate concepts, if the meaning of the word changes the word itself has changed, reducing a word to its mere orthography is nonsensical
Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit
by PurpleBoxDragon on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @04:13PM
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>orthography also changes
Not of things already written down. The long S written in the Constitution is still there. It has not changed, and there would be outrage for anyone to go and change it. Changing the emoji from one meaning to another would be like changing the encoding of utf-8 so that a now means e and e means a, meaning that and and end flips in every utf-8 encoded file that is viewed.
Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit
by paulddraper on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @03:38PM
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Would you see any issues with Apple changing the orthography of the character f from "f" to "g"?
Re:The Absolute Denial of Shit
by artpepper2 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:02PM
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guck yes!
The meaning of the words will change over time, but not the words themselves. So someone who reads it will know what the words written actually were, and just have to lookup any differences in meeting between when the words were written and now.
Imagine for a second if we took Shakespeare and rewrote it with modern day English, and then made the claim the new version is the original Shakespeare... I think we would see the problem with that. But that is what happened with emoji. It isn't that people look back, see as collections of pixels, and realize now those pixels mean water gun while in the past they meant firearm. When they look back, they see water gun.