Re: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

From: Curtis Clark (jcclark-lists@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Dec 25 2008 - 19:14:54 CST


On 2008-12-25 16:30, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> All modern-use and recently created symbols face the suspicion of
> impermanence.

And if they went away, then they'd be historical, which would mean that
scholars would have to reconstruct...oh, wait a minute! We already
encoded them when they were contemporary!

I'm not sure there's anything wrong with the slogan, "Encoding
tomorrow's historical scripts...today."

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