[IDN-WG] Fwd: [ NNSquad ] Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
ocl at gih.com
Mon Nov 6 06:13:01 UTC 2017
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Subject: [ NNSquad ] Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 08:18:20 -0800
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren at vortex.com>
To: nnsquad at nnsquad.org
Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji
http://blog.koehntopp.info/index.php/2745-unicode-is-over-and-it-dies-over-emoji/
That is, something that was supposed to be an annotation for
conveying emotion became not only anthropomorphised to the
point where that meaning is overshadowed by race, gender and
culture issues.
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A reminder of why I *never* have voluntarily used Emjoi in my
communications. And likely never will.
--Lauren--
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