Emojis?

purplem4 wrote:

a pail emoji is needed asap cause pails are the new thing

No, pails (or buckets) are not a new thing. The earliest known depiction of a bucket dates to about 3200 B.C. Because I know how to use words, I was able to find that information very quickly. Words - 1, Emoji - 0.

It’s not up to Apple. Tell the Unicode Consortium.

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Discrimination, over the lack of an emoji, c'mon get serious.

Its a nice idea. I'd like to see an Auburn haired emoji. There are a lot of other products that don't include red hair as an option. Like some brands of eyebrow pencils don't include Auburn. Just blonde, black & different browns. I noticed this in Target yesterday. Some hair colors don't offer any shades of red either. It's a real bummer. I'm sorry that I wouldn't quite call it discrimination though. I tend to think of that as involving more serious subjects, but I can feel left out.

Canelitaakay wrote:

I urge Apple to fix this.

It's not Apple's problem to fix as they do not make the decisions of what emoji's are available. As already mentioned, you need to solicited your choices from the consortium that regulates emoji's, and that is not Apple.

Quite honestly, nobody on this planet actually needs any single emoji at all.

What at about the people with blue or purple hair? Should they not have their own emoji? Or magenta?

I have auburn hair and don't really care if I am "represented" by little cartoon characters. If people can't take the trouble to use my name, or at the very least, describe me with actual, real words, they can text someone else.

Why are there only blonde families? Does apple not believe in diverse families?

It's a cartoon character for heaven's sake.

francisco166 wrote:

Why are there only blonde families? Does apple not believe in diverse families?

I saw someone yesterday with hair that was purple in front, fading to green towards the back with a black streak in the middle. I couldn't find an emoji for it, so I clearly have no way to describe it. And this is clearly a case of discrimination.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

I saw someone yesterday with hair that was purple in front, fading to green towards the back with a black streak in the middle. I couldn't find an emoji for it, so I clearly have no way to describe it. And this is clearly a case of discrimination.

You mean you used those things..... what are they called...... we used to use them back in the old days......WORDS!!!!!!

Sadly, it won't be long before all 26 letters of the alphabet are discarded for a complete new language of Emojis.

francisco166 wrote:

Why are there only blonde families? Does apple not believe in diverse families?

There are over 170,000 words in current use in the English language. And an almost 50,000 addition words that are consider archaic. Hundreds, perhaps even thousands of those describe colors. Try using some of them to describe people.

I understand that, if you speak, for example, French, your options are more limited. Or, Toki Pona. If you speak a language with a smaller available vocabulary, you might be able to make a case for needing little cartoons to express yourself fully.

Really? Let me guess Trump supporter? Wake UP!

Really, you equate the availability of an emoji to the bigot known as Trump?

francisco166 wrote:

Really? Let me guess Trump supporter? Wake UP!

No, I'm a supporter of literacy and of the beauty of language well used. I suspect that puts me in a very different category than Mr. Trump.

And, don't you think it's a little narrow-minded to assume that, because I speak English, I'm from the U.S.?