{"id":140,"date":"2016-05-17T21:31:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T21:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=140"},"modified":"2016-05-17T21:31:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T21:31:59","slug":"they-came-they-conquered-world-emoji-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"They Came, They \u263a, They Conquered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">K<\/span>im Kardashian gave me a Christmas present \u2013 an entire vocabulary of emotions. It\u2019s a full complement of emoji, called \u201cKimoji\u201d, in which her bootylicious ass features prominently, engaged in activities that your behind and mine are unlikely to ever be engaged in.\n\nCost of Kimoji app \u2013 \u20b9120.\n\nLetting Kim Kardashian&#8217;s ass do all the talking \u2013 Priceless.\n\nSuddenly, everyone seems to be jumping onto the emoji bandwagon. Right from Fred Berenson who translated Moby Dick into emojis, to Sony Pictures with the first all-emoji movie \u2013 everyone&#8217;s putting their money where our keyboards are and re-creating the world based on these pictograms. Even Hillary Clinton has an emoji keyboard full of \u201chill-mojis\u201d available free for download. (Full disclosure: HER derriere is conspicuously absent. Just saying.)\n\nBut whether they come with a perfectly rounded ass or not, I along with 99.99 per cent of digitally literate human beings, love emojis. There are several complex sociological and linguistic factors that would explain our addiction, which in scientific terms can be stated as \u201c??\u2764\ufe0f??\u270c?\ufe0f??????.\u201d\n\nWhat\u2019s not to love? Emojis are fun, easy to use and can express simply and playfully what words cannot. Most importantly, as pictures chosen to depict universal human emotions and icons \u2013 they ideally don&#8217;t need any explanation across age and cultures. Even daft oldies, who thought LOL meant lots of love, should know that ? means you\u2019re not going to laugh out loud any time soon.\n\nHowever, daft oldies should never be underestimated \u2013 they have a way of misunderstanding and mangling everything. Know the most popular emoji in the demographic of \u201cpious aunties with a smartphone\u201d? It\u2019s a high five! It\u2019s only when you see the emoji and the context in which it is sent (with a Hari Om or a Namaste, often accompanying invitations to satsangs) that you realise that one man\u2019s high five is a pious aunty\u2019s prayer hands (?)!\n\nBut, playfulness and ease of use aside, the reason emojis have been so successful in colonising our keyboards is because they help us write like we speak. So writing, \u201cIt\u2019s raining ??????\u201d is understood in the same way as your saying, \u201cIt\u2019s raining,\u201d and breaking out into a jig.\n\nThat is huge. I mean, really.\n\nGestures and body language have been critical in communication because they\u2019ve allowed us to express ourselves non-linguistically. And now it turns out that emojis help us to do exactly that. So writing, \u201cexam ?\u201d conveys without words that your performance in the said exam could have been microscopically improved. Which is a massively complex and sophisticated piece of non-verbal communication, especially for a humble pile of poop to achieve.\n\nBut Unicode Consortium, the gatekeepers and regulators of the emoji world, need to be congratulated not just for upcycling piles of poop and adding a bacon emoji to the bank of 1,200 standard emojis. They\u2019re doing amazing stuff \u2013 they\u2019ve made racially diverse emoji standard across platforms, added the flag of practically every country, and broadened the definition of love and relationships to include same-sex couples and families. (That\u2019s more tolerance in a keyboard of 1,200 characters than a country of 1.2 billion.)\n<\/p><blockquote class=\"quote--center\">&#8220;Chill, language Cassandras, the experts have spoken \u2013 emojis may currently be kicking the ass of mere words, but they can never ever replace them.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\nWhile many purists bemoan the rise of emoji as the death knell of the written word, I can\u2019t quite comprehend what they are moaning about. Emojis are used differently than words are \u2013 for instance, millennials who aren&#8217;t overly fixated with the literal meaning of a specific emoji use them as broad brushstrokes to convey information or feeling.\n\nBrooklyn teenager Osiris Aristy found this out the hard way when he posted an emoji of a gun next to one of a cop in a Facebook post. While he definitely wanted to convey that the New York Police Department wasn\u2019t on top of his popularity charts, he didn\u2019t expect to be arrested for threatening them. Thankfully, the jury (obviously less literal minded than the police) threw out the charge.\n\nNeil Cohn is a cognitive scientist who has studied emojis in the context of visual language. He believes that emojis can at best supplement language, never supplant it. Because one can\u2019t say even a simple sentence like \u201cmy brother is surfing\u201d in emoji and have it universally understood; he believes emoji speak will always be inflexible and stilted.\n\nSo chill, language Cassandras, the experts have spoken \u2013 emojis may currently be kicking the ass of mere words, but they can never ever replace them.\n\nSo, a ? to the pictograms that have taken over our ?. They\u2019ve added to the richness and beauty of language by adding imagery that is evocative and playful. So no matter how old you are, a ??? always means ?. And though you might struggle to express in words a feeling of simultaneous supreme confidence, a certain je ne sais quoi, a queenliness and utter disregard for the ordinary, there\u2019s ? available in the emoji world to do it efficiently for you. And for everyone who has bemoaned the lack of options in digital media to present one\u2019s amorous side to one\u2019s partner, consider sending a sext using the simple but elegant ?. I have it on good authority that it is widely recognised as a cheeky but sexy offer and that it has supplanted the ? as the amorous fruit du jour. (Emoji Dick, anyone?)\n\nBeing able to convey love, swag, and sex all at the click of an icon &#8211; could communication get any richer?\n\n\u00af_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af\n\nI think not.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emojis are kicking the ass of mere words. Love, sex, swag, we can convey it all, with simply one character. 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