• dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    For me, the problem is different 🤔 I work in an environment with young people 👶 Young people who speak with emojis 💯 and they expect others to speak with emojis as well 🤝 So when I write a message or a mail 📩 Then I need to figure out which emoji I need to replace the periods with 😅 And the minefield is kinda terrible, since some of the “regular” emojis are considered highly passive agressive 🙂

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      2 years ago

      This is hilarious to read for me because my mind automatically makes a pause after every emoji, longer than two periods, and it feels like every sentence is very emphasized. But the silence is filled with this not-so-serious emoji. Idk, hard to explain it

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      2 years ago

      it’s better to just not. just let them do their thing, and you and i can continue sending actually legible communication.

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    2 years ago

    The accessory I remove after looking at the mirror is usually myself. I just give up going out. lol

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    2 years ago

    How does the initial advice work for guys?

    I don’t have accessories, am I supposed to take one shoe off or something??

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      2 years ago

      I fukken love me an interrobang. I have a shell alias on my computers that copies one of those bad boys into my clipboard so I can more easily display my shocked puzzlement. It’s very useful when dealing with msft products, especially Azure.

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        2 years ago

        I always bind compose key to right logo key on Linux. Then I can enter interrobang by pressing right logo, exclamation mark and question mark.

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          2 years ago

          I always have a terminal open in the workspace on my other monitor so it’s just <super-j> interr <tab> <return> <super-;> <c-v>

          wait, that makes me sound like an absolute fucking nutcase lol. I typed that first sentence completely unironically and only realized how absurd it was afterwards. It’s faster than the whole “type the Unicode point value” thing, but I should probably start using compose key instead.

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          2 years ago

          Android similarly makes it easy. If I just press and hold on ?, I get options for ¿ and ‽. Seems like mobile devices have worked out more convenient UIs for this type of thing.

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      I don’t know if I have ever used an exclamation point in a work email.

      My issue is usually how to phrase asking someone for something, when I am actually commanding them for something.