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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)
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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the point that you're trying to convey by relexing "old man screaming at the sky" to use emojis?

If the point is that "they could be used to convey meaning": I've already addressed it. Usually, they aren't. (If the point is something else, please clarify.)

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t you agree the perfect reply to:

Emoji are pretty dumb, but I guess I’m just an old fart about it.

…is a string of emoji? :)

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If that was my point, it would be a great answer.

However my point is not against the usage of emojis to convey linguistic meaning, like that. (It's a bit pointless, but at least you're saying something through the emojis.)

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well of the three usages:

  • graphical echo ("I saw a cat today 🐱")

  • mood/attitude particles (“I wish I were just a cat 😕”)

  • ideographic usage ("I saw a 🐱 today")

The echo is almost certainly the least useful.

When overused gratuitously, it can be funny (NSFW examples included)!

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

That overuse feels a lot like a fourth category. It's almost meta-, as if using emojis to parody emoji usage!

I'm not sure if it's usage for echo or as mood particles makes me roll my eyes the most. Perhaps echo, too.

Are you a linguist? Fabulous descriptive capabilities you have there.

More like "ability to remember vocab from uni times" (My second grad included Linguistics, although I don't work on the field nowadays.)

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Are you a linguist? Fabulous descriptive capabilities you have there.