21 Jan 2016 danstowell   » (Journeyer)

Emoji understanding fail

I'm having problems understanding people. More specifically, I'm having problems now that people are using emoji in their messages. Is it just me?

OK so here's what just happened. I saw this tweet which has some text and then 3 emoji. Looking at the emoji I think to myself,

"Right, so that's: a hand, a beige square (is the icon missing?), and an evil scary face. Hmm, what does he mean by that?"

I know that I can mouseover the images to see text telling me what the actual icons are meant to be. SO I mouseover the three images in turn and I get:

  • "Clapping hands sign"
  • "(white skin)"
  • "Grinning face with smiling eyes"

So it turns out I've completely misunderstood the emotion that was supposed to be on that face icon. Note that you probably see a different image than I do anyway, since different systems show different images for each glyph.

Clapping hands, OK fine, I can deal with that. Clapping hands and grinning face must mean that he's happy about the thing.

But "(white skin)"? WTF?

Is it just me? How do you manage to interpret these things?

Syndicated 2015-11-10 05:16:04 (Updated 2015-11-10 05:18:12) from Dan Stowell

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