• eighty@aussie.zone
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      1 month ago

      English was due for it tbh. Do I like that it’s emojis – not particularly.

      But it does fill that ambiguity gap, especially when it comes to written humour.

      • Baŝto@discuss.tchncs.de
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        29 days ago

        emojis add ambiguity themselves. There are plenty of people who don’t understand sweat droplet emojis. There are definitely cultural gaps with 🙏. I think I read there are different ways to use 💀

        And they look different everywhere

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
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      In some demographics it’s already been that way for at least half a decade, I remember reading an article about it during COVID