Re: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Wed Jan 07 2009 - 17:13:10 CST

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    On 1/7/2009 3:00 PM, Rick McGowan wrote:
    > -1
    >
    > Asmus, and others... This bit of e-fashion is becoming annoyingly
    > e-common. Please, if you want to add your voice to what someone else
    > has just written, then please write something that requires more than
    > one bit to relay. Or at least truncate their note.
    Which I did, so there you have my -1 on your message [insert emoticon of
    your choice here]. You will note the "..." that elided lengthy passages
    not needed. I have no choice but to retain the full message below so you
    can see for yourself.

    A./
    >
    > Receiving an e-mail that says merely "+1" -- i.e., exactly one bit of
    > information -- followed by the /complete /note that was just sent by
    > someone else is annoying. It's like, 1000/1 noise to signal.
    >
    > And it's popping up more and more on the Unicode list and this list.
    >
    > Please de-sist.
    >
    > Just my 2 cents.
    >
    > (And next time I see a particularly egregious example on the Unicode
    > list I think I'll also mention this pet peeve over there...)
    >
    > Rick
    >
    >
    > Asmus Freytag wrote:
    >> On 1/7/2009 1:17 PM, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
    >>> James Kass wrote, in response to Mark Davis:
    >>>
    >>> ...
    >>>> There don't appear to
    >>>> be pragmatic interoperability issues driving Unicode's push
    >>>> to encode these emoji.
    >>>>
    >>>
    >>> This just seems to me to be a willful refusal to believe
    >>> what the folks dealing with these interoperability issues
    >>> have asserted, more than once.
    >>>
    >> +1
    >>
    >>> ...
    >>> I recognize that you and others strongly disagree. So be it.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>
    >> +1
    >>
    >> A./
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> .
    >>
    >
    >
    >



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