Ok, I admit it. I am baffled by emoji. There are too many! Even here on cc, if I click on the smiley to insert, I’m stumped. There are just too many choices making it all the more likely I will pick the wrong one! Which one do I choose?? It does not help that I can’t see small details as well as I used to. I can text fine without glasses, but pick out details in emoji eye shapes? Forget it!
Thankfully, my younger son is a very patient explainer of text abbreviations and slang. He also thinks it’s hysterical when I don’t know what something means. He could not get over that I didn’t know what a “scrub” was yesterday. I better get an emoji tutorial before he leaves for school!
Well, from the link provided, here is one key takeaway:
There are relatively few emojis that one really needs: happy, sad, angry, etc. Once you start getting into obscure emojis, you’re better off just typing out what you mean (or use an acronym, if one exists).
Certainly on this forum, if one uses a string of emojis, odds are that I will delete all but the first. >:)
I’m with you, LBowie. The emojis are too small to decipher the emotion they mean to convey, and, yes, there are too many of them. I end up using them rarely, and, when I do, I’m hoping I picked the right one.
A scrub is a guy that thinks he’s fly
And is also known as a buster
Always talkin’ about what he wants
And just sits on his broke ass
A scrub is a guy that cant get no love from me
Hanging out the passenger side
Of his best-friend’s ride
Trying to holler at me
Actuall, Lyrics by Kandi Burris and Tiny Harris (before she married T.I.), Rap by Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes.
But people were using the word scrub long before the song. We were calling people scrubs when I was a kid; from someone who thought they had some type of athletic prowess but really had no game to some one who was fronting pretending to be something they weren’t ( and this was probably before the song writers were born)
I don’t like how the emoji button on cc is on the far right of the top line of whatever you are typing, which seems to be the place I always make typos and can’t see them!
Greenwitch, I learned to combat that problem by turning my phone 90 degrees - the text automatically reformats, and the emoji button moves out of the way and no longer obscures the last letter I typed.
In my day (the dinosaur time), a scrub was someone who was trying to get into the big leagues but wasn’t quite there. It’ wasn’t a negative. Time does fly, and I feel older and older every day. You’ll notice no emoji’s for me - heck, I still have a dumb phone. Must be time to put myself out to pasture …