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?
Defending language and human expression by arbitrarily limiting the scope of what should be considered valid language and expression.
The linguistic niche that emojis fill is the same niche that is filled by emblems, which are a powerful tool for communicating specific ideas very concisely and have existed long before the internet. If pictures are too childish and regressive for this guy, then I suppose they want a world without bright red hexagonal stop signs and railroad crossing markers and would instead prefer traffic control markers be replaced with plain text billboards containing the relevant legal codes written in plain text.
I admit I laughed but it seems excessive to swarm someone who's not expressing a political thought.
I mean, shorthand and jargon are literally everywhere in the working world and i don't think anyone'd call that a sign of civilizational decay. Your average court stenanographer would be boned if they had to write in full sentences.
Every stenographer is pulling down our civilization with every use of shorthand. Every day we get further from "peak human" 
what is :barbara-pit: ?
It's the stand in for all the various mine shafts and wells which have historically been used by partisans for Nazi disposal
Firebombing the apple servers to stop the use of emojis and thus save modern civilization.
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I N C R E D I B L E
ITT: Strugglesesh on wether logographic or phonetic writing is elitist
stay normal hexbear
He'a right, you know. Every man, woman, and mutant shall know The Truth About De-Evolution
The only thing that's bigger loser shit than the reactionaries wishing back a past that never existed is the losers thinking we hit peak good right now, especially for reasons that they actively participate in
Feels awfully fucking convenient to have nailed the entire concept of "language" just right as you were taught as a child, never before in 20.000 years of humanity and probably never after. You truly are god's specialiest boy, you fucking bozo
Stephen Fry is a turboliberal but he had a good segment once on Jonathon Ross' show where he addresses this.
He called this type of person an "arse whitterer".
It's fine. Deal with it.
Language is only possible and enjoyable because of ambiguity.
Otherwise we have Lojban or Ithkuil for the hyper-rationalist types. I'd actually like to have a conversation with one of them if they can really pick it up, but that's just because I'm a nasty conlanger who enjoys shit like this
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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