The New York Times: Emoticons have replaced words to some extent

The New York Times: Emoticons have taken the place of words: The New York Times print edition, published July 27, published a commentary in the paper titled "Emoticons won the word war" (the Emoji Have Won the Battle of Words). Emoticons have become an important means of communication among people, even to a certain extent, to replace the text. But there are still many flaws in this model. The following are the main contents of the article: about 6 months ago, all kinds of smiley icons spawned more content, including the hearts that came with sending baby photos, and the affectionate kisses that come with goodnight. Personally, I particularly like to have a slightly uncomfortable grimace with teeth. When you want to send sorry, I'm late! Or, alas, it's one o'clock in the afternoon, I just got up. , this is the perfect way to attach such an emoticon. In the end, I began to use a variety of textures instead of words, and even came up with all kinds of strange textures to replace the complete sentences. But in fact, figuring out the time spent on these textures could have been several times, or even more than 10 times times, of text. In order to concentrate on these things, I sometimes even refuse to call. It was obviously addictive and had to stop. Smiley-face icons and emoticons can be traced back to the 1880 's, but their origins on the phone began in Japan in the 1990 's. At that time, as a unique feature on pagers, this icon is popular among youth groups. It was not until the 2008 that the unified emoticons evolved to minimize the gap between the different platforms. Apple (97.67,0.64,0.66%) also adopted this model in 2011 and added it to the iOS 5 operating system. But the pattern, which was popular among geeks and Japanese users, was quickly spread around the world. According to the global Language monitoring system, emoticons (emoji) have become the number one popular term this year, and have even been included in the Oxford English Dictionary. This has spawned a variety of novelty sites, including social networking emoj.li that can only be used to communicate with emoticons. There is even a non-profit organization called Unicode Consortium, designed to standardize standards across platforms. The group said they would recently add 250 emoticons to Apple, Microsoft (44.5,0.10,0.23%) and Google (589.02,-4.33,-0.73%) products. I even consider adding emoticons to my resume this week. I recently asked a friend, does she think she has reached the tipping point of the emoticons now? She told me she had been chatting with a friend for 45 minutes. According to Emojitracker's statistics, Twitter (38.16,-0.55,-1.42%) sends 250 to 350 emoticons per second. Smiley and heart symbols are the most, but there are some more complex content.Emoticons can also help if you really don't know what to say or don't want to talk, but don't like to offend others by being silent. I like emoticons because I don't want to gossip. A woman said. Although the popularity of the time is not long, but the expression is still a cultural phenomenon. There is a network of people even with emoticons translated Beyonce's "Drunk in Love." The emoticons version of Moby Dick was recently collected by the Library of Congress. Legal experts are also discussing whether death threats from emoticons can be used as evidence in court. I'm not sure if you can really see it as a perfect language. The linguist Ben Ze (Ben Zimmer) says, but it does combine possibilities. Any symbolic system that is used for communication can develop dialects. But like any new medium, emoticons are also experiencing growing pains. Even if I wear my glasses, I can't see the little things clearly. 64-year-old writer and philanthropist Rousse Ann Hanish (Ruth Ann Harnisch) said. When used on different platforms, emoticons often lead to misunderstandings. The existing emoticons are referred to as too large: not enough to reflect a variety of expressions, not to mention, some emoticons in different people's eyes will show different meanings. It is therefore difficult to achieve true unity. Unicode Consortium is designing a whole new set of emoticons, but this can lead to a further deterioration of the problem: even the keyboard is not uniform, how to ensure that these choices really play a role? (Ding Macro)