Emoji have their place… to express emotions, not facts or verbs. I dislike using them in place of words because they tend to be seriously ambiguous, and we have these things called “words” that we have been developing for millenia and which are much less ambiguous. We’ve had ideographic written languages and we’ve gotten rid of most of them.
I had this late-night text discussion…
Girlfriend:
Why are there no hug emoji
Me:
🫂 🤗
But they could be ambiguous. I prefer words.
Girlfriend:
🛌
#notambiguous
Me:
“F*** me now.”
Girlfriend:
🤦🏻♀️
Me:
“Wasp on my forehead!!!”
Girlfriend:
🏃♀️
Me:
“Time for a jog!”
Girlfriend:
💩
Me:
“Pooping makes me happy!”
Girlfriend:
👽👾🤖
Me:
“I’m going to eat your soul.”
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