Smileys are an evolution in communication over words

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Mch lk y cn rd xctly wht m syng wth vwls mssng y cn nvrt tht wth smlys nd gt vn mr nf frm th glphs.

It also shows how contextual the structure of commuication is because most people in the regular world wouldn't have a clue what half of the stuff on here means due to the shared culture.

A picture is worth a thousand words, indeed.

 

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See?

 

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[7th Letter Specialist]

stfu

 

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neo.hieroglyphics*

 

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neo.hieroglyphics*

Exactly, exactly. It also precisely why translations of old glyphs will make as much sense as a basic machine translation as they are read by people who lack all of the contextual clues that are needed to comprehend the meaning.

I genuinely think we are at the cutting edge of a form of linguistic evolution which isn't a surprise given how rap is generated in the brain but its fascinating to be part of history in the making.

 

[Mordith]

 

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thread has potential

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

modern day hieroglyphics.

 

[Uchiha God]

when the aliens mass download billions and billions of terabytes to see what human civilization was like and find this thread

 

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when the aliens mass download billions and billions of terabytes to see what human civilization was like and find this thread

Consider a remix smiley. You know exactly what it means via the juxtaposition of elements at play due to that common frame:

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It shows you how this visual language is way more alive, way more vital than our regular spoken and that in turn offers an amazing insight onto the lives of ancient cultures because Egyptian is a ridiculously punny language that had more wordplay than a punchline rapper. It also shows how the margin for translation errors is immense because like Cam said:



And most of these dry academics lack that resonant insight to comprehend and innerstand what happens when they were kickin the bobo.

Wait and see, maybe even in your lifetime you'll see the shift on a global scale as we switch from one stage of the Game to the next because the past is the future to those with clear vision. That's why they call it in-tuition and this here serves as testimony that I predicted the vision.

 

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