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Unicode 18: Diese neun neuen Emojis kommen und das bedeuten sie
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Unicode 18: Diese neun neuen Emojis kommen und das bedeuten sie
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Unicode 18: Diese neun neuen Emojis kommen und das bedeuten sie
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Le visage craquelé remplace le visage aux yeux plissés dans les emojis de 2027 http://dlvr.it/TTctzk #Emojis #Unicode
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Le visage craquelé remplace le visage aux yeux plissés dans les emojis de 2027 http://dlvr.it/TTctzk #Emojis #Unicode
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Le visage craquelé remplace le visage aux yeux plissés dans les emojis de 2027 http://dlvr.it/TTctzk #Emojis #Unicode
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Le visage craquelé remplace le visage aux yeux plissés dans les emojis de 2027 http://dlvr.it/TTctzk #Emojis #Unicode
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Le visage craquelé remplace le visage aux yeux plissés dans les emojis de 2027 http://dlvr.it/TTctzk #Emojis #Unicode
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😀 Unicode ya tiene listos los nuevos emojis de 2027. Descubre qué significan los nueve diseños y cuándo podrás usarlos.
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😀 Unicode ya tiene listos los nuevos emojis de 2027. Descubre qué significan los nueve diseños y cuándo podrás usarlos.
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😀 Unicode ya tiene listos los nuevos emojis de 2027. Descubre qué significan los nueve diseños y cuándo podrás usarlos.
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World Emoji Day is almost over. Why did I build Emoji Anki?
As often, it was a silly idea. I thought that learning language vocabulary with emojis would be fun. I was already using Ankidroid for spaced repetition; there were a few Anki decks with emojis, but most were incomplete, or did not allow chosing categories, there was (very) limited language choice.
Emoji Anki uses the publicly available Unicode CLDR data, that has annotations for every emojis, in 150+ languages.
As a side effect, another fun thing you can do with it is learn country flags.
#EmojiAnki #WorldEmojiDay #Unicode #Emojis #LanguageLearning #Anki
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World Emoji Day is almost over. Why did I build Emoji Anki?
As often, it was a silly idea. I thought that learning language vocabulary with emojis would be fun. I was already using Ankidroid for spaced repetition; there were a few Anki decks with emojis, but most were incomplete, or did not allow chosing categories, there was (very) limited language choice.
Emoji Anki uses the publicly available Unicode CLDR data, that has annotations for every emojis, in 150+ languages.
As a side effect, another fun thing you can do with it is learn country flags.
#EmojiAnki #WorldEmojiDay #Unicode #Emojis #LanguageLearning #Anki
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World Emoji Day is almost over. Why did I build Emoji Anki?
As often, it was a silly idea. I thought that learning language vocabulary with emojis would be fun. I was already using Ankidroid for spaced repetition; there were a few Anki decks with emojis, but most were incomplete, or did not allow chosing categories, there was (very) limited language choice.
Emoji Anki uses the publicly available Unicode CLDR data, that has annotations for every emojis, in 150+ languages.
As a side effect, another fun thing you can do with it is learn country flags.
#EmojiAnki #WorldEmojiDay #Unicode #Emojis #LanguageLearning #Anki
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World Emoji Day is almost over. Why did I build Emoji Anki?
As often, it was a silly idea. I thought that learning language vocabulary with emojis would be fun. I was already using Ankidroid for spaced repetition; there were a few Anki decks with emojis, but most were incomplete, or did not allow chosing categories, there was (very) limited language choice.
Emoji Anki uses the publicly available Unicode CLDR data, that has annotations for every emojis, in 150+ languages.
As a side effect, another fun thing you can do with it is learn country flags.
#EmojiAnki #WorldEmojiDay #Unicode #Emojis #LanguageLearning #Anki
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World Emoji Day is almost over. Why did I build Emoji Anki?
As often, it was a silly idea. I thought that learning language vocabulary with emojis would be fun. I was already using Ankidroid for spaced repetition; there were a few Anki decks with emojis, but most were incomplete, or did not allow chosing categories, there was (very) limited language choice.
Emoji Anki uses the publicly available Unicode CLDR data, that has annotations for every emojis, in 150+ languages.
As a side effect, another fun thing you can do with it is learn country flags.
#EmojiAnki #WorldEmojiDay #Unicode #Emojis #LanguageLearning #Anki
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@ancientsounds In the case of emojis, we have a fixed inventory so it’s actually easier. If your corpus is large enough (like the over 2 billion tweets we used), it will be clear which emojis occur the least, and it’s not (only) the newest ones! The WhatsApp corpus is much smaller, so it won’t really work there.
It’s funny that you also can’t really ask people “Which emojis do you use the least” because we definitely don’t have any awareness of that 😅 #emojis #linguistics -
@ancientsounds In the case of emojis, we have a fixed inventory so it’s actually easier. If your corpus is large enough (like the over 2 billion tweets we used), it will be clear which emojis occur the least, and it’s not (only) the newest ones! The WhatsApp corpus is much smaller, so it won’t really work there.
It’s funny that you also can’t really ask people “Which emojis do you use the least” because we definitely don’t have any awareness of that 😅 #emojis #linguistics -
@ancientsounds In the case of emojis, we have a fixed inventory so it’s actually easier. If your corpus is large enough (like the over 2 billion tweets we used), it will be clear which emojis occur the least, and it’s not (only) the newest ones! The WhatsApp corpus is much smaller, so it won’t really work there.
It’s funny that you also can’t really ask people “Which emojis do you use the least” because we definitely don’t have any awareness of that 😅 #emojis #linguistics -
@ancientsounds In the case of emojis, we have a fixed inventory so it’s actually easier. If your corpus is large enough (like the over 2 billion tweets we used), it will be clear which emojis occur the least, and it’s not (only) the newest ones! The WhatsApp corpus is much smaller, so it won’t really work there.
It’s funny that you also can’t really ask people “Which emojis do you use the least” because we definitely don’t have any awareness of that 😅 #emojis #linguistics -
@ancientsounds In the case of emojis, we have a fixed inventory so it’s actually easier. If your corpus is large enough (like the over 2 billion tweets we used), it will be clear which emojis occur the least, and it’s not (only) the newest ones! The WhatsApp corpus is much smaller, so it won’t really work there.
It’s funny that you also can’t really ask people “Which emojis do you use the least” because we definitely don’t have any awareness of that 😅 #emojis #linguistics -
As this thread is slowing down (but feel free to keep the questions coming), this is also a great time to plug the public "Linguistics of Emojis" Zotero library, which we maintain. Over 300 scientific works on the linguistics of emojis - check it out! 🤓 #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay https://www.zotero.org/groups/2613859/linguistics_of_emojis/library
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As this thread is slowing down (but feel free to keep the questions coming), this is also a great time to plug the public "Linguistics of Emojis" Zotero library, which we maintain. Over 300 scientific works on the linguistics of emojis - check it out! 🤓 #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay https://www.zotero.org/groups/2613859/linguistics_of_emojis/library
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As this thread is slowing down (but feel free to keep the questions coming), this is also a great time to plug the public "Linguistics of Emojis" Zotero library, which we maintain. Over 300 scientific works on the linguistics of emojis - check it out! 🤓 #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay https://www.zotero.org/groups/2613859/linguistics_of_emojis/library
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As this thread is slowing down (but feel free to keep the questions coming), this is also a great time to plug the public "Linguistics of Emojis" Zotero library, which we maintain. Over 300 scientific works on the linguistics of emojis - check it out! 🤓 #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay https://www.zotero.org/groups/2613859/linguistics_of_emojis/library
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As this thread is slowing down (but feel free to keep the questions coming), this is also a great time to plug the public "Linguistics of Emojis" Zotero library, which we maintain. Over 300 scientific works on the linguistics of emojis - check it out! 🤓 #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay https://www.zotero.org/groups/2613859/linguistics_of_emojis/library
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@ricci Yes, the default (not neutral) yellow skin tone is read as white. This can also be seen in cartoons like the Simpsons, where all characters are yellow except for (initially just) Apu.
There are some great studies by (Robertson et al. 2018, 2020, ...) on emoji skin tones. They compared New York City with London and Johannesburg - everywhere non-white people used skin tone modifiers the most. That's also how they showed that most users employ the skin tone modifiers to closely reflect their own skin tone - with some variations which they can explain, for example to better match hair color as well or because the darkest emoji skin tone washes out the facial features of many emojis (so is dispreferred). #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay https://doi.org/10.1145/3377479 -
@ricci Yes, the default (not neutral) yellow skin tone is read as white. This can also be seen in cartoons like the Simpsons, where all characters are yellow except for (initially just) Apu.
There are some great studies by (Robertson et al. 2018, 2020, ...) on emoji skin tones. They compared New York City with London and Johannesburg - everywhere non-white people used skin tone modifiers the most. That's also how they showed that most users employ the skin tone modifiers to closely reflect their own skin tone - with some variations which they can explain, for example to better match hair color as well or because the darkest emoji skin tone washes out the facial features of many emojis (so is dispreferred). #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay https://doi.org/10.1145/3377479 -
@ricci Yes, the default (not neutral) yellow skin tone is read as white. This can also be seen in cartoons like the Simpsons, where all characters are yellow except for (initially just) Apu.
There are some great studies by (Robertson et al. 2018, 2020, ...) on emoji skin tones. They compared New York City with London and Johannesburg - everywhere non-white people used skin tone modifiers the most. That's also how they showed that most users employ the skin tone modifiers to closely reflect their own skin tone - with some variations which they can explain, for example to better match hair color as well or because the darkest emoji skin tone washes out the facial features of many emojis (so is dispreferred). #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay https://doi.org/10.1145/3377479 -
@ricci Yes, the default (not neutral) yellow skin tone is read as white. This can also be seen in cartoons like the Simpsons, where all characters are yellow except for (initially just) Apu.
There are some great studies by (Robertson et al. 2018, 2020, ...) on emoji skin tones. They compared New York City with London and Johannesburg - everywhere non-white people used skin tone modifiers the most. That's also how they showed that most users employ the skin tone modifiers to closely reflect their own skin tone - with some variations which they can explain, for example to better match hair color as well or because the darkest emoji skin tone washes out the facial features of many emojis (so is dispreferred). #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay https://doi.org/10.1145/3377479 -
@ricci Yes, the default (not neutral) yellow skin tone is read as white. This can also be seen in cartoons like the Simpsons, where all characters are yellow except for (initially just) Apu.
There are some great studies by (Robertson et al. 2018, 2020, ...) on emoji skin tones. They compared New York City with London and Johannesburg - everywhere non-white people used skin tone modifiers the most. That's also how they showed that most users employ the skin tone modifiers to closely reflect their own skin tone - with some variations which they can explain, for example to better match hair color as well or because the darkest emoji skin tone washes out the facial features of many emojis (so is dispreferred). #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay https://doi.org/10.1145/3377479 -
"Are there any other examples of written notations for body language?
I'm aware of "dance notation", which is roughly in the same direction, I suppose." - I didn't know dance notation, will have to look into it!
There is an increasing amount of work in #linguistics on gesture, and there are some inventories of #gesture based on basic components like location, hand and finger configuration, movement. We have a research cluster on Visual Communcation where we investigate the commonalities between visual forms of communication such as emojis, gestures, and sign language: @vicom
Sign language of course has notational forms as well, and in this dictionary of German Sign Language, signs can be searched by location, hand form, etc.: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/korpusdict/overview/index-dgs.html #emojis #WorldEmojiDay -
"Are there any other examples of written notations for body language?
I'm aware of "dance notation", which is roughly in the same direction, I suppose." - I didn't know dance notation, will have to look into it!
There is an increasing amount of work in #linguistics on gesture, and there are some inventories of #gesture based on basic components like location, hand and finger configuration, movement. We have a research cluster on Visual Communcation where we investigate the commonalities between visual forms of communication such as emojis, gestures, and sign language: @vicom
Sign language of course has notational forms as well, and in this dictionary of German Sign Language, signs can be searched by location, hand form, etc.: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/korpusdict/overview/index-dgs.html #emojis #WorldEmojiDay -
"Are there any other examples of written notations for body language?
I'm aware of "dance notation", which is roughly in the same direction, I suppose." - I didn't know dance notation, will have to look into it!
There is an increasing amount of work in #linguistics on gesture, and there are some inventories of #gesture based on basic components like location, hand and finger configuration, movement. We have a research cluster on Visual Communcation where we investigate the commonalities between visual forms of communication such as emojis, gestures, and sign language: @vicom
Sign language of course has notational forms as well, and in this dictionary of German Sign Language, signs can be searched by location, hand form, etc.: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/korpusdict/overview/index-dgs.html #emojis #WorldEmojiDay -
"Are there any other examples of written notations for body language?
I'm aware of "dance notation", which is roughly in the same direction, I suppose." - I didn't know dance notation, will have to look into it!
There is an increasing amount of work in #linguistics on gesture, and there are some inventories of #gesture based on basic components like location, hand and finger configuration, movement. We have a research cluster on Visual Communcation where we investigate the commonalities between visual forms of communication such as emojis, gestures, and sign language: @vicom
Sign language of course has notational forms as well, and in this dictionary of German Sign Language, signs can be searched by location, hand form, etc.: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/korpusdict/overview/index-dgs.html #emojis #WorldEmojiDay -
"Are there any other examples of written notations for body language?
I'm aware of "dance notation", which is roughly in the same direction, I suppose." - I didn't know dance notation, will have to look into it!
There is an increasing amount of work in #linguistics on gesture, and there are some inventories of #gesture based on basic components like location, hand and finger configuration, movement. We have a research cluster on Visual Communcation where we investigate the commonalities between visual forms of communication such as emojis, gestures, and sign language: @vicom
Sign language of course has notational forms as well, and in this dictionary of German Sign Language, signs can be searched by location, hand form, etc.: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/korpusdict/overview/index-dgs.html #emojis #WorldEmojiDay -
Actually, should the plural be "emoji" or "emojis" ?? 😵💫 - Both are used frequently! I think "emoji" reminds us of other loan words that end in "-i" in the plural, like "celli" or "radii" or "tori" or all the pastas. That's why many people feel that "emoji" is plural enough 😅 . But the word is from Japanese, and is called "emoji" in the singular, from "e" = picture and "moji" = character. (In contrast to "emot-icon", the word "emoji" doesn't have anything to do with emotion!) So my vote is for the regular English plural "-s", yielding "emojis" ✅ #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
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Actually, should the plural be "emoji" or "emojis" ?? 😵💫 - Both are used frequently! I think "emoji" reminds us of other loan words that end in "-i" in the plural, like "celli" or "radii" or "tori" or all the pastas. That's why many people feel that "emoji" is plural enough 😅 . But the word is from Japanese, and is called "emoji" in the singular, from "e" = picture and "moji" = character. (In contrast to "emot-icon", the word "emoji" doesn't have anything to do with emotion!) So my vote is for the regular English plural "-s", yielding "emojis" ✅ #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
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Actually, should the plural be "emoji" or "emojis" ?? 😵💫 - Both are used frequently! I think "emoji" reminds us of other loan words that end in "-i" in the plural, like "celli" or "radii" or "tori" or all the pastas. That's why many people feel that "emoji" is plural enough 😅 . But the word is from Japanese, and is called "emoji" in the singular, from "e" = picture and "moji" = character. (In contrast to "emot-icon", the word "emoji" doesn't have anything to do with emotion!) So my vote is for the regular English plural "-s", yielding "emojis" ✅ #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
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Actually, should the plural be "emoji" or "emojis" ?? 😵💫 - Both are used frequently! I think "emoji" reminds us of other loan words that end in "-i" in the plural, like "celli" or "radii" or "tori" or all the pastas. That's why many people feel that "emoji" is plural enough 😅 . But the word is from Japanese, and is called "emoji" in the singular, from "e" = picture and "moji" = character. (In contrast to "emot-icon", the word "emoji" doesn't have anything to do with emotion!) So my vote is for the regular English plural "-s", yielding "emojis" ✅ #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
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Actually, should the plural be "emoji" or "emojis" ?? 😵💫 - Both are used frequently! I think "emoji" reminds us of other loan words that end in "-i" in the plural, like "celli" or "radii" or "tori" or all the pastas. That's why many people feel that "emoji" is plural enough 😅 . But the word is from Japanese, and is called "emoji" in the singular, from "e" = picture and "moji" = character. (In contrast to "emot-icon", the word "emoji" doesn't have anything to do with emotion!) So my vote is for the regular English plural "-s", yielding "emojis" ✅ #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
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Another famous case is the grimacing face 😬 (which I personally like a lot). Initially its design varied widely between platforms: It looked like a toothy (but happy) grin 😁 on some platforms, but like the pained grimace on others - so there was a lot of potential for misunderstanding. In such a case, the design is then usually adapted in a later version to get a better match with other platforms. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
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Another famous case is the grimacing face 😬 (which I personally like a lot). Initially its design varied widely between platforms: It looked like a toothy (but happy) grin 😁 on some platforms, but like the pained grimace on others - so there was a lot of potential for misunderstanding. In such a case, the design is then usually adapted in a later version to get a better match with other platforms. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
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Another famous case is the grimacing face 😬 (which I personally like a lot). Initially its design varied widely between platforms: It looked like a toothy (but happy) grin 😁 on some platforms, but like the pained grimace on others - so there was a lot of potential for misunderstanding. In such a case, the design is then usually adapted in a later version to get a better match with other platforms. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
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Another famous case is the grimacing face 😬 (which I personally like a lot). Initially its design varied widely between platforms: It looked like a toothy (but happy) grin 😁 on some platforms, but like the pained grimace on others - so there was a lot of potential for misunderstanding. In such a case, the design is then usually adapted in a later version to get a better match with other platforms. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
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Another famous case is the grimacing face 😬 (which I personally like a lot). Initially its design varied widely between platforms: It looked like a toothy (but happy) grin 😁 on some platforms, but like the pained grimace on others - so there was a lot of potential for misunderstanding. In such a case, the design is then usually adapted in a later version to get a better match with other platforms. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
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"Some designs of emojis are very different for the same codepoint, especially the ones depicting emotions/reactions. Examples coming to mind are 😨, 🔫. What are your thoughts on this?" - The (water) pistol 🔫 was originally a hand gun which looked a lot more real. In response to its frequent use in criminal or other unsavory contexts (e.g., as a threat), most platforms replaced it with the colorful plastic toy gun design in 2018. (In 2024, Elon Musk had it turned back into a realistic hand gun for the Twemoji design 🙄)
I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't think we can stay on top of all potential uses of emojis (or should even try to limit them) and people who want to use emojis for threats probably can still do so. On the other hand, I do find it rather hard to imagine that the green plastic 🔫 could be used as a threat... so... I guess good job, designers/tech firms? #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://emojipedia.org/pistol#designs -
"Some designs of emojis are very different for the same codepoint, especially the ones depicting emotions/reactions. Examples coming to mind are 😨, 🔫. What are your thoughts on this?" - The (water) pistol 🔫 was originally a hand gun which looked a lot more real. In response to its frequent use in criminal or other unsavory contexts (e.g., as a threat), most platforms replaced it with the colorful plastic toy gun design in 2018. (In 2024, Elon Musk had it turned back into a realistic hand gun for the Twemoji design 🙄)
I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't think we can stay on top of all potential uses of emojis (or should even try to limit them) and people who want to use emojis for threats probably can still do so. On the other hand, I do find it rather hard to imagine that the green plastic 🔫 could be used as a threat... so... I guess good job, designers/tech firms? #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://emojipedia.org/pistol#designs -
"Some designs of emojis are very different for the same codepoint, especially the ones depicting emotions/reactions. Examples coming to mind are 😨, 🔫. What are your thoughts on this?" - The (water) pistol 🔫 was originally a hand gun which looked a lot more real. In response to its frequent use in criminal or other unsavory contexts (e.g., as a threat), most platforms replaced it with the colorful plastic toy gun design in 2018. (In 2024, Elon Musk had it turned back into a realistic hand gun for the Twemoji design 🙄)
I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't think we can stay on top of all potential uses of emojis (or should even try to limit them) and people who want to use emojis for threats probably can still do so. On the other hand, I do find it rather hard to imagine that the green plastic 🔫 could be used as a threat... so... I guess good job, designers/tech firms? #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://emojipedia.org/pistol#designs -
"Some designs of emojis are very different for the same codepoint, especially the ones depicting emotions/reactions. Examples coming to mind are 😨, 🔫. What are your thoughts on this?" - The (water) pistol 🔫 was originally a hand gun which looked a lot more real. In response to its frequent use in criminal or other unsavory contexts (e.g., as a threat), most platforms replaced it with the colorful plastic toy gun design in 2018. (In 2024, Elon Musk had it turned back into a realistic hand gun for the Twemoji design 🙄)
I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't think we can stay on top of all potential uses of emojis (or should even try to limit them) and people who want to use emojis for threats probably can still do so. On the other hand, I do find it rather hard to imagine that the green plastic 🔫 could be used as a threat... so... I guess good job, designers/tech firms? #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://emojipedia.org/pistol#designs