I Stopped Using Emojis
I love the core set of smiley face emoji, but skip most of the rest because they’re either too hard to find or too easy to misunderstand.<p>I’d be interested in a comparison between emoji &amp; a character-based language like Chinese or a hieroglyphic language like ancient Egyptian… Any good articles out there on that topic? As an amateur observer of languages, it seems like the purpose &amp; grammar of the emoji set isn’t well enough defined. Maybe some of the emoji are adjectives &amp; should only appear once a verb or noun emoji is picked… Maybe “watermelon” should be a compound of “water” and “melon”…<p>Are there any notable emoji keyboard experiments out there? I wonder if anyone has tried organizing emoji like a Chinese keyboard (which I have seen &amp; used, but may misunderstand since I don’t read Chinese).