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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → General Discussion → Glasses emoji
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William
What are we supposed to discuss? I do not see a problem.
Maybe you need to borrow a pair of glasses from the emoji !
Can't see we need a discussion, though.
This story made the BBC news. They interviewed school children who wore glasses and they all thought that the new emojis did serve a purpose, as it made them seem less like "nerds".
I have made some progress with this. Please discuss.
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William
I have made some progress with this. Please discuss.
Why?
I have made some progress with this. Please discuss.
Why?
Well, why not? Don't you find the subject of emojis representing people who wear glasses totally fascinating and absorbing Jack? I would have thought that somebody with a mathematical bent, such as yourself, would be all over this.
Just out of interest William, when did the word "emoji" replace the far friendlier word "smiley". Emoji sounds almost sinister to my ears, whereas smiley conjurers up a world which is full of love and happiness. If only today's world was like that...
Hello Albert
Smilies are earlier than emoji. Smilies are possibly now regarded as a subset of emoji.
Emoji started in the late 1990s in Japan. Initially they were thought of an entirely Japanese phenomen and it was decided not to encode them in Unicode.
Later, it was decided to encode in Unicode the emoji used in Japan for compatibility purposes so that a message encoded on one brand of smartphone could be read on a smartphone of another brand.
Somewhere along the way new emoji got encoded and it all took off in a way not initially thought of a text encoding standard being used.
But that is progress. New ideas, new directions.
You may find this of interest.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/e … t_MoMA.htm
There is a link in thar page to a MoMA web page.
William
I have made some progress with this. Please discuss.
Why?
Why, by command? I don't want to, so there!
I have made some progress with this. Please discuss.
Why?
Why, by command? I don't want to, so there!
Your comments were very helpful when I was writing my novels and you kindly read chapters as I published them and provided feedback to me.
William
Don't you find the subject of emojis representing people who wear glasses totally fascinating and absorbing
No. I find it fascinating that some people do.
Don't you find the subject of emojis representing people who wear glasses totally fascinating and absorbing
No. I find it fascinating that some people do.
Something you posted in the old Serif Lounge influenced my writing of a chapter of my first novel.
Here is a link to the chapter. Do you know what you wrote that influenced my writing?
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_017.pdf
Other readers might like to try to think what GB wrote about in the old Serif Lounge that inspired part of what I wrote in that chapter?
William
I realize what I am about to say might paint me as something of a contrarian (not a truly bad term), a dinosaur (a somewhat worse term), crotchety old fart (now we're getting truly negative), or just a nasty old SOB (we have arrived at the center of Negativity City). I think emojis are silly.
I don't use them at all. While they may add a bit of "cuteness" to a post, "cuteness" has never been my objective. Whether I'm trying to be deadly serious, humorous, simply chatty, blathering nonsensically, or expressing an emotion, I try to let my words convey that.
I guess now I'm coming across as something between a crotchety old fart and a nasty old SOB. Bah. Humbug.
Peace, and may God save us from our respective politicians.
I agree with you Robert mainly because I rarely understand the emoji. So many look similar.
eric... thank you for the support.
I expect some backlash here, but I know it will not be nasty because this is a delightfully civilized group. What a concept!
Something you posted in the old Serif Lounge
I do not remember. Perhaps it was pointing out that it should be "rung" not "rang" in the 5th line.
Something you posted in the old Serif Lounge
I do not remember. Perhaps it was pointing out that it should be "rung" not "rang" in the 5th line.
You posted about a new airship at around the time when I was thinking about writing that chapter. So if you had not done that it is very unlikely that an airship would have been included in the story.
This author note might be of interest.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/l … er_013.pdf
The whole novel with the author notes included is available at the following page.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/novel_plus.htm
The inclusion of the railway heritage centre in the novel was because of a line of thought that occurred to me when in the old forum a lady made a comment about my novel.
William
I have made some progress with this. Please discuss.
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William
There are two replies to my post.
https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-otspec
In the archive for October 2022.
William
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