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minus-squareM137@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down37·5 days ago“those emojis” They’re not emojis, at all. Emojis are pictures with a very specific and limited set. They’re ascii characters. You calling them emojis is “grandma calling your Xbox a “Nintendo Station”” level dumb.
minus-squareVeryFrugal@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down1·5 days agoThose aren’t standard ASCII characters. They are Unicode. They are closer to emojis than anything else. Before you try to lecture anyone you might want to spend more than 10 seconds on wikipedia next time.
minus-squarebinux@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·5 days agoThere’s a multitude of ways to correct someone without coming off as a pedantic prick in the process
minus-squareWaraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 days agoIt does make it less funny when someone tries to politely correct and is wrong vs belligerently doing so with inaccurate information though.
minus-squaregrrgyle@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·4 days agoYou really didn’t have to add dumb at the end there. We all make mistakes, and emoji can also be interpreted and implemented in pretty different ways
“those emojis”
They’re not emojis, at all. Emojis are pictures with a very specific and limited set. They’re ascii characters.
You calling them emojis is “grandma calling your Xbox a “Nintendo Station”” level dumb.
Those aren’t standard ASCII characters. They are Unicode. They are closer to emojis than anything else.
Before you try to lecture anyone you might want to spend more than 10 seconds on wikipedia next time.
There’s a multitude of ways to correct someone without coming off as a pedantic prick in the process
It does make it less funny when someone tries to politely correct and is wrong vs belligerently doing so with inaccurate information though.
You really didn’t have to add dumb at the end there. We all make mistakes, and emoji can also be interpreted and implemented in pretty different ways