We love emoji.
We love them so much and they’re so embedded into our English language that one became word of the year in 2015.
In emoji symbols, hands next to each other, thumbs touching, means “Person Raising Both Hands in Celebration.” It is used normally when one is winning at something. Emoji from Japanese Pictogram (絵文字, read えもじ) (pl. Bmw f10 coding. Emoji) are the small pictures you can put on your texts. The word dates back to the initial Japanese mobile phones.
Free download madagascar escape 2 africa pc game. But sometimes, they just don’t make sense. Too often we think they mean one thing only to find out later they mean something else.
And it’s not all our fault as depending on what system you have (IOS, Android etc.) all emoji will look different.
We won’t blame you for wondering how on earth we are meant to talk effectively with all this room for miscommunication.
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We’ve therefore put together a guide to assist your emoji needs.
With the help of Jeremy Burge, founder of the world’s number one resource on emoji, Emojipedia, we reveal the emoji you commonly mix up and the ways you should be using them.
1) Information desk person
Commonly used: To convey ultimate sassiness. Like when you’re telling a potential Tinder date that there’s no way in hell you’re going to send them naked pics.
How it should be used: To present information? Your guess is as good as ours.
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Jeremy reveals that it was the design on IOS that changed the use of this emoji.
I mean, look how it is on Samsung at the moment:
That is definitely an information desk we see there.
IOS was the only system that made it look, well, sassy. But that soon changed after it became more commonly used to denote sass.
‘It was used so much as a sassy emoji on IOS, others changed it to look like theirs,’ says Jeremy.
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2) Disappointed but relieved face
Commonly used: To express worry or concern over a stressful situation.
How it should be used: To express disappointment and relief. Two contradictory emotions. No wonder nobody seems to use it right.
We can’t really imagine a scenario where you would use it correctly to convey relief AND disappointment….and neither can Jeremy.
‘There is no good reason to be disappointed, but relieved,’ he concedes.
3) Person with folded hands
Commonly used: High-five, or when you’re praying for something.
How it should be used: To say please or thank you. Hands folded together is a traditional Japanese greeting used to say both.
4) Sleepy face
Commonly used: When people are annoyed or exasperated with someone or something.
How it should be used: For when you’re sleepy. The tear is meant to represent a snot bubble interestingly, which comes from Japanese culture.
‘In Japanese manga and anime, a snot bubble is commonly used to show when characters are sleeping,’ Jeremy explains.
So basically, we can only guess it’s for that state of tiredness when you’ve lost control of your bodily functions…lovely.
5) Grinning face with smiling eyes
Commonly used: When a situation is so unbearably awkward you have nothing else to say to each other.
How it should be used: The artwork used on other platforms represents more accurately what it should be – i.e a happy, grinning face.
I mean look at them all – they’re so happy:
But thanks to Apple’s design of the emoji, it’s commonly confused as a grimacing face instead.
What went wrong, IOS.
6) Hug face
Commonly used: Well, what does it look like? Jazz hands of course!
How it’s meant to be used: As a nice friendly hug when your buddy’s having a hard time.
It’s still a relatively new emoji compared to others as it came out with the release of IOS 9.3, but Jeremy says it’s caused all sorts of confusion.
‘It really does look like jazz hands. I use it that way, like: ‘I’m going out for lunch now *jazz hands*.”
7) Dizzy face
Commonly used: Dead face, i.e after the following sentence: ‘I am so hungover after last night’.
How it’s meant to be used: To express dizziness. To put it quite simply. Though to be fair you might be feeling dizzy when you’re hungover, so we don’t get it too wrong I guess.
It’s also commonly confused with the very similar astonished face:
Jeremy gives a very simple way to tell them apart though: ‘One with teeth is astonished; one without teeth is dizzy.’
8) Open hands sign
Commonly used: When someone saying something that is beyond cringe, and you just want to tell them to stop. Also jazz hands.
How it’s meant to be used: It’s meant to actually be a very friendly, non-threatening gesture. Representing openness and honesty.
Well, jazz hands is close enough.
Why do people mix up emoji?
It could be a cultural difference. Emoji originated on Japanese mobile phones in the 1990s, and have since become popular worldwide. The folded hands emoji is a clear example of how its origins have influenced its real meaning, but other cultures have interpreted it differently.
Jeremy also says the fact that people have different devices leads to miscommunication, as they don’t think, for example, how an IOS emoji might be interpreted by an Android phone user.
‘A lot of people just don’t know people are getting confused. They don’t think about what’s going behind the scenes.
‘Only now and then the mismatch in meaning gets picked up and will be questioned.’