From a thread asking opinions about emoji usage.
However it happens and whomever is responsible here we are... and we're losing ground fast. And things like emojis are leading the charge.
Should we tell them @WhyEssEff@hexbear.net is responsible?
Honestly fuck everything about that comment but especially fuck how this person seems to think that Egyptian hieroglyphics were in any conceivable way a "primitive" writing system, as opposed to a writing system so multifaceted and complicated it took the literal Rosetta Stone as well as the comparative method with Coptic and Proto-Afro-Asiatic to decipher it and understand its inner workings.
For that matter fuck that this person thinks that cave paintings are a "primitive" art form. It's like, oh wow imagine using the bumps in cave walls to create depth and the flicker of torchlight to create the illusion of animation. Imagine painstakingly manufacturing the paint used. Imagine coordinating a community effort to help document and illustrate its own oral history using iconography that we can only theorize about. Couldn't be me!
If anything, the problem with hieroglyphics is they weren't simple enough. They were designed to be used by a priestly class and nobody else. Then even that priestly class thought it was too annoying to draw a whole ass picture for a syllable or a number and they invented hieratic cursive to greatly simplify the writing process.
Then Cuneiform was like "Hey, waht if we took simple arrangements of dashes and triangles and made them in to a completely illegible cluttered mess?
Saw an older biker looking guy with some viking tattoos and I was trying to sus out if he was fashy, then saw the cuneiform tattoo and was like "Oh, he's just a history dork we're cool". He had some pagan stuff on, too, but it was a mixture of older new-agey stuff that you don't really see on the fashy neo-thoraboos.
Then Cuneiform was like "Hey, waht if we took simple arrangements of dashes and triangles and made them in to a completely illegible cluttered mess?
Sumerian cuneiform might slightly predate predate hieroglyphics, and is ugly because of the limitations of the medium. Digging out the book I have about this:
David Burton - The History of Mathematics An Introduction (2005)
Me on acid: You ever think about how ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs are actually just emoji’s?
I love these dorks that say something vibes-based and subjective that they made up and act like it's the most scientific fact in the world.
Humans communicate through multiple ways, Mostly through body language. When one fails to accurately describe what we want to communicate we use the other. This is normal and I would be more concerned if we only used one form of communication.
It's just more supremacy bullshit. There always has to be something dominating to these people.
Cultural degeneration theory, huh. Wonder where that worldview leads
Western civilization is about admiration of statues bleached by time and corrosion until the garish paint that was once there is gone. The more admiration of statues bleached by time and corrosion until the garish paint that was once there is gone, the more civilized. 
If you look at the history of aesthetics, you will notice that people in nearly all cultures for the most of history, literally except west and westernized ones (and even that just in the last 300 years), simply loved garish colours. Only thing standing between people and having everything in garish colours was poverty.
Uncritical support to @WhyEssEff@hexbear.net in her mission to personally destroy western civilization via emojis
Phonetic Writing and its consequences have been a disaster for man kind. The Barbarians of the west were never meant to read and write. The Caucasoid brainpan simply can not comprehend logography. Innumerable horrors have been meted upon mankind as a result of their acquisition of the pen. /s
Same person who responded like this when proven categorically wrong:
Hey look it's me. Neat.
I'm on the cover of a MAGAZINE!
Renowned daily publication, Hexbear.
How's it feel to be singlehandedly responsible for so much coping, seething, and malding? 
waxes lyrical about the degradation of language, blissfully unaware that olds have been doing exactly that since the invention of the written word
doesn't know how to use whom or a semicolon
least stupid prescriptivist
Death to America
yeah everyone knows that since the advancement of language, there has never been a use for photos or illustrations
It's almost as if Reddit-style smug passive-aggressive sarcasm with a sufficiently cromulent number of big words and pretenses of ironic detachment and logicbro LARPing are the height of "peak human." 
Chuck Wendig is proof that access to a thesaurus is not a human right. Tangential, but as a word “cromulent” has been forever tarnished by him.
Whines about language degenerating.
Can't even use whom right.
Oh look a prescriptivist.
Written English isn't really a phonetic language. It's a logographic script utilizing 26 radicals to make characters. While these radicals give clues to pronunciation, English learners largely have to memorize the pronunciation of each character. 
a beautifully rendered reply
@WhyEssEff@hexbear.net all of your hard work does not go wasted 
Meanwhile, in Japanese:
A: "An owl is a bird on a tree, how shall we write it?"
B: "How about a bird 鳥 standing on a tree 木?"
A: "Splendid, 梟 it is"
Technically, that was a Chinese thing and then Japanese copied it.
Meanwhile, sometime before Unicode 9:
A: “梟 is cool but I’ll forget what it means. How else could we write it?”
B: “How about 🦉?”
A: “Splendid, get to work, font makers!”
"And while we're at it, fuck graphs too! Is it so hard to not succumb to cultural decadence by simply listing off each data point and trend line using words like a civilized being?!"
Lmao even standard Unicode emojis can also be fun. Check this shit out:
log(😅) = 💧log(😄)
Still this doesn't hold a candle to what Hexbear offers.
Unicode is different from hexbear in that they have sexually explicit emojis while hexbear has 
nsfw
Shrek blowjob 🤮
This person can't be more than like 14 years old.
NO MORE WORDS. Society has advanced beyond the need for words
Want to communicate details with clarity? We have a tool for that, it's called PICTURES
Who knew all I needed to do to end civilization was post 
when I'm happy and 
when it's time to roll out the 
@HowMany@lemmy.ml is the shitlib who was all "CHINA? DON'T THEY MAKE ALL THE WORLD'S AIR POLLUTION??" and then when I was like "hey dipshit they also make all the world's stuff" he came back like a week later with some dumb fuck comment
Synthesizing their post into my understanding of the current bug menace.
when the speakers of Germanic languages were huddled together in mud huts Egypt was a great empire
not even going to elaborate on the obvious brainworms contained in the idea that English speakers are more human than others
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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eliminate the roman alphabet and make everyone write in hanzi