emojis are starting to become punctuation huh
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2026
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English was due for it tbh. Do I like that it's emojis – not particularly.
But it does fill that ambiguity gap, especially when it comes to written humour.
emojis add ambiguity themselves. There are plenty of people who don’t understand sweat droplet emojis. There are definitely cultural gaps with 🙏. I think I read there are different ways to use 💀
And they look different everywhere
16 years ago I ended every line of chat with ^^
In some demographics it's already been that way for at least half a decade, I remember reading an article about it during COVID
Linguists are gonna be eating good these next few decades.
We are going back to hieroglyphs! Also, didn't people die of fever in ancient Egypt due to trying to warm up?
did you know that the printing press (with movable letters) was invented in china around 1000 AD?
the only reason why the modern age wasn't started in china (instead of in europe) is because the chinese alphabet was too complicated for the printing press (too many letters to search from). the latin alphabet is simpler and therefore didn't have that problem
Surprised chimp sounds
Humans aren’t allowed to use emojis anymore, they now belong to the AI overlords.
Humans 👤 aren’t ❌ allowed 🚨 to use 😪 emojis anymore, 😫😵 they 🏽 now 🕔 belong to the AI 🥰 overlords.
You managed to glitch how Voyager app displays your comment with the emojis, bravo
Really? How did it break?
I cropped only top and bottom did not crop the image on the sides this is how it actually displays
always has been
Unless 🥺 you eat a lemon
👉👈
Unless 🥺 you eat out lemon
👉👈
This post meg me into a small but interesting rabbit hole of scurvy, scar tissue and collagen.... Really interesting and I didn't know scar tissue sucks so much compared to regular skin ...!
Presenting ☝️ to the emergency room, where we are now.
Never thought I'd see a chubbyemu reference in the wild
fuck I can hear this guys voice lmao. I hate his videos, they make me uncomfortable.
That emoji is the emergency room emoji for me too
Admit it, you went back to read it again then reenacted the finger gesture.
Absolutely.
Yaaarrr lemons be packed with ascorbic acid ta help yer body create collagen keepin' the connective tissues strong yaaarrrrr
Some kraut works wonders too. ☝️🤓
I imagined it was read by Cave Johnson; it adds a certain something.
I don't know who Cave Johnson is so I had to imagine it being read by Dwayne Johnson which didn't really add anything.
He is the founder of Aperture Science in the Portal/Half Life series.
get portal 2, you poor soul, no, you don't need to be a hardcore gamer
edit: btw he's voiced by jk simmons
Cave Johnson's voice just gives everything a certain pizazz
Especially anything to do with lemons
Exactly why I heard it in his voice.
Eats ☝️ shoots ☝️ and leaves
Even less than a lemon. Eat the scrub grass! Actually not sure if that sgit is toxic