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Emoji 13.0 - 117 new entries for 2020
- Thread starter whatsinaname
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I'm starting to think they are just adding them for adding's sake; I mean really, when is anyone going to use the lungs emoji or random unreadable signpost?
Mate, that's a dodo.
Laughing while crying is so different than smiling while crying tho
Took way too long for the trans flag and symbol emoji's to be added, but I'm glad they're finally there. Still need some for other members of LGBTQ+ I really hope to see bisexual, ace, non-binary, and pansexual flags in the future!
Also gonna get a lot of use out of that black cat emoji lol
Also gonna get a lot of use out of that black cat emoji lol
Reluctantly. Here's accidental Emoji expert Tom Scott doing a talk about it.
Long and short: Unicode compiles every languages custom keyboard requirements into one universal standard for seamless communication across all computers. The Japanese language is really hard to turn into computerized text, so Japanese cell phones effectively compressed every possible kanji/katakana into images, and had some space left over which became the first few emoji.
When Unicode started working on making compatability with Japanese cell phones, they had to adapt those, as they were technically part of an existing system, then people realized that Apple supported them at the system level, and made apps to unlock it, it started to blow up, and... there we go
High quality versions of every new emojis:
Normal humans use a variety of body language while they talk. It's been this way for hundreds of thousands of years. Only in the last couple centuries did it become commonplace for people to communicate without body language.
for me it's a vulture and I'll use it as such. I'm a rebel, like that
