I'm sorry, but..."emoji"??

If it makes you feel better, I might have heard it once in passing but I had/have no idea what it was. :-D

 

It's the Japanese word for something like picture-letter. Apparently, it sounds cooler to kids than emoticons. :cool haha

http://www.unicode.org/faq/emoji_dingbats.html tells the difference between emoticons and emoji. rolleyes

Emoji are actually standardized for inclusion in devices. Hundreds of characters specifically for them are included in Unicode 6: http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/EmojiSources.txt

Gmail has started using them, now.

 

Does this mean we'll soon be able to express ourselves on Major Geeks using Godzilla and Hello Kitty? :-D

 

I just heard it used yesterday. Based on the context of the conversation I thought emoticon.
I kinda like the word.

 

Well, I never heard of them either, until I read your post.:confused

 

Same here. I think I'm OK with that. LOL

 

Never heard of it either. Sounds like a medical condition. "Oh no,my emoji is flaring up!". :-D:-D

 

Never heard of it either I wikipedia'd it.:-D

 

I had an emoji once and the wheels fell off!

How far does one go on a gallon of petrol?

 

Maybe it's because those of us who haven't heard it (yes I'm in that list :-D ) are not 14 year olds who spend 80% of their lives on FB or texting ... also I don't think many of us are Japanese speakers :-D

Or we're just old :-D

 

This is wrong. Godzilla is too old for Hello Kitty :-D :-D

 

So, what's the deal here? are the guys supposed to be Godzilla and the gals Hello Kitty, or some such? And even so - how does that equate to 'Major Geek'? Doesn't make a lick of sense to me.:confused

Hardly anyone here knows what 'Emoji' are, 'prolly because we aren't 12-15 year old Japanese girls with a fetish for Animae, I'd say. Unless I'm missing something, which aint hard for me to do, LOL

 

roflmao
I refuse to comment on LauraR's age again in THIS thread.

 

While I am considerably older than 14 and don't speak Japanese, I do spend probably 80% of my life on FB or texting since I had surgery. LOL

 

i'm with your daughter - what the heck is an "emote"?

emoticon i've heard, emoji i've heard, plain ole "icon" i've heard, but...an EMOTE?? as a NOUN?!

well, google seems to back you up on that, but i ain't never heard it. surely "emoji" is about 1000x more common?

(not to mention the fact that emote seems to be an entirely DIFFERENT beast, now reading the defintions)

 

unfortunately, much of the info online -- incl the wiki article -- has one glaring mistake: emoji IS the japanese word for emoticon, plain and simple. the idea that it refers to a different SET of icons is one of circumstance, not inherent in the WORD. meaning, for example, that japanese would refer to our lesser batch as "emoji", same as their own.

it's the same as with how they refer to batman or dilbert as "manga", whereas we've mangled the word into meaning "japanese style" only.

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i still don't understand the OP's last line. there's nothing "wrong" with emote, noun -- it just doesn't MEAN the same thing as emoji/emoticon.

were you (laura) implying that it DOES?!

 

emoji are; emotes aren't.

emoji/emoticon are icons. emotes are the underlying TRIGGERS which may or may not turn into emoji.

*frustrated*
<bangs head>
;-)

are all emotes. as is princess tymoshenko there.

in other words LOL is an emoji, *lol* is an emote.

 

um...if you're going to agree with me here, then why paste in a quote which totally contradicts us both?!

:confused

 

emoji are small characters; emotes are strings.

as you said in your post. that quote is wrong.

 

Merry New Year~!!

My well-meaning dad got me an iPhone for Christmas. Emoji is a free app for iphone only (Apple blows in that direction). My favorite Emoji is a pile of poop that smiles. Unfortunately, no one I know has an iphone, so no smiley poop for anyone.

Oh, "emote" is the verb for "emotion." Ex: "When I saw that an iPhone had arrived instead of a Samsung...I emoted for the rest of the day until I accepted things I could not change."

 

That pile of poop can be used on Facebook, but only in comments.

 

eye candy is fine; what is unforgiveable is SIGNATURES.

you wanna show how cool you are with an irrelevant quote by some 14th century philospher, do it ONCE, in a SPECIFIC post. not EVERY BLXXDY TIME!!!!

geesh, why do forums tolerate such a collosal waste of space?

from now on i'm going to affix the MAGNA CARTA to all posts i make. that'll show 'em how HIP i am!

rolleyes

 

Totally agree with TimW!

 

Sure, but not all of them work on all sites, as their formats are slightly different or they're not included in the list. I just happen to have discovered within the last week that the smiling pile of poop works on Facebook. Now I have to see if it works here. LOL

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Edit:
There, see? It doesn't work here!

 

LOL Different one, but sure. :-D