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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/20/2022 2:07 AM, Dominikus Dittes
Scherkl via Unicode wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:4624cca1-65c6-2b64-607c-71853d045f94@gmx.de">Am 20.10.22
um 00:26 schrieb Marius Spix via Unicode:
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<blockquote type="cite">There is actually a sequence of Unicode
characters to clearly describe
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a “Physics Teacher” without the downsides you have mentioned:
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U+0050 U+0068 U+0079 U+0073 U+0069 U+0063 U+0073 U+0020 U+0054
U+0065
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U+0061 U+0063 U+0068 U+0065 U+0072
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This has a different downside: You need to speak english to
understand
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it. This is especially what emoji try to circumvent.
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<p>No. Emoji weren't and aren't used primarily to be language
independent. In fact, I bet there's much use of emoji that is
based on puns and similar mechanisms: where the emoji is used to
stand for a word in an expression in some language where another
language (or culture) would employ a different word or expression,
so that even translating the nominal meaning of the emoji wouldn't
help you.</p>
<p>Emoji, as opposed to emoticons, were first used widely in Japan,
where they were used by Japanese communicating with other Japanese
thinking in Japanese. So, no, that wasn't about circumventing
having a shared language. More, perhaps, about having a shorthand,
or also, perhaps a way to express yourself without the directness
of using words explicitly. The combination of that with a certain
cuteness factor, would seem sufficient to explain their explosive
success in Japan.<br>
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<p>You must be thinking about different sets of symbols, like those
used on laundry tags, or those that appear on car and other
equipment controls; some have even made the jump to other user
interfaces (like, Play, Pause and Stop symbols). For those you
would be correct in saying that they try to be language
independent.</p>
<p>A./<br>
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