The rise and fall of robots.txt
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As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.
  • LvxferreEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    If that was my point, it would be a great answer.

    However my point is not against the usage of emojis to convey linguistic meaning, like that. (It’s a bit pointless, but at least you’re saying something through the emojis.)

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Well of the three usages:

      • graphical echo (“I saw a cat today 🐱”)

      • mood/attitude particles (“I wish I were just a cat 😕”)

      • ideographic usage (“I saw a 🐱 today”)

      The echo is almost certainly the least useful.

      When overused gratuitously, it can be funny (NSFW examples included)!

      • LvxferreEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        That overuse feels a lot like a fourth category. It’s almost meta-, as if using emojis to parody emoji usage!

        I’m not sure if it’s usage for echo or as mood particles makes me roll my eyes the most. Perhaps echo, too.

        Are you a linguist? Fabulous descriptive capabilities you have there.

        More like “ability to remember vocab from uni times” (My second grad included Linguistics, although I don’t work on the field nowadays.)