Well, back in 19-dickety-2, I used to wear an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
Now, to take the ferry costs a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now, where were we?
No, it's more that :) and 🙂 give different vibes. I literally use both because of that lmao.
Yeah maybe somebody can help me here. Is it 🤣 or 😂 the one that kids make fun of us for using?
:P is appropriate a lot of times when 😛 is not, and the latter is what slack converts it to. 😋 Is what they should use. One looks like you're being silly, the other looks sexually desperate.
:P can also be more neutral than happy at times, which is a nuance that the emoji lacks.
Yeah, there's a kinda cheeky tone to :p and ;p that none of the graphical ones I've seen have captured. :S is another one, where I see it as half smile, half frown/sad. Like "this is amusing but also horrible" or "putting on a smile despite everything being awful". Any of the smileys on my phone that have more than one curve for the mouth look either crazy or sick.
Tried auto-cock for a while and turned it off, my texting life has been considerably more ppleasurable.
We use an older version of Outlook at work and it turns :) into 🙂 but not the emoji but the Wingdings smiley which is the letter J when you use a different font. I only found out after months when somebody asked me why I put so many J's in my mails.
I don't remember asking you a god damn thing Outlook 🤨
If there's a bad decision that can be made, the Outlook development team made it. It's a real shame that the industry standard is a hot garbage fire of a program.
I've had to re-disable auto correct options multiple times in outlook. I'm perfectly fine capitalizing my own letters because sometimes I type code snippets in emails and don't want those being treated as if they are sentences that need grammar and spelling corrections. I don't need your fucking angled quotes either.
Red or green underlines to say you think there's a problem are ok. Changing what I'm typing without me telling you to is not.
Mac OS has autocorrect enabled by default on the entire operating system. Why TF would I want that when I'm typing with a full-sized physical keyboard? It's especially annoying when you're typing code. So yeah, I disabled all that crap within a couple of minutes. It's super annoying.
When i was about 10 i sent an email to my uncle that said "K cool 🙂" with the wingding smile.
His client rendered it "K cool J" and he made fun of my "jive"
Never sent an email using multiple or nonstandard typefaces again. I guess it was a good lesson, but it's one of those hyper cringe core memories.
I work in a technical field. My work email changes "<3" to a heart emoji.
Pardon me, sir. I was not expressing my admiration, its just that your analyte concentration is less than the measuring range of my instrumentation.
I put autocorrect on suggestion mode. That way it still suggests words but never corrects what I type, unless I click the suggestion. Much better.
I call automistake.
You gotta watch it like a hawk. Sometimes it will change words three or four words back in what I’m typing.
Mine thinks “human” should be spelled “juman” and that “.com” is supposed to be “.con”.
It’s ridiculous
I actually disabled the damn thing a few years ago. It kept changing the meaning of words. Unfathomable bullshit like love to hate and will to won’t.
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In my head it translates to an upside down face which is more like a signal of slight discomfort
Another reason why I miss my full keyboard: I could tell autocorrect to bend over, snap it's spine and fuck itself with it's own spinal cord.
I'm old. I don't understand what people are trying to tell me half the time they use emojis.
Who in tarnation is cooking an eggplant peach dish that's splashing? I saw my daughter's text messages and her boyfriend didn't even bring any of this strange dish to share when he came over. Kids these days...
I'll raise you one better: I don't know what I'm saying when I use them. I'm sure some have meanings, but I just pick whatever looks funny. I've probably caused some confusion before.
I see this as an example of either how little some people making decisions in tech companies know about what people want or about how different the things I want are from the majority of people.
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Try turning this into an emoji, Apple. Oh wait, you can't, because I made it up. (Idea may be thought of by someone else before)
It was meant to be some kaomoji version of two eyes closed with a frown (I have little knowledge about kaomoji), but I actually like your description way more.
I've always just done it backwards, even before emojis were a thing.
I guess I'm just alternative, like Weezer.