View Single Post
Old 11-10-2019, 02:25 PM   #7895 (permalink)
freebeard
Master EcoModder
 
freebeard's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: northwest of normal
Posts: 28,978
Thanks: 8,225
Thanked 8,995 Times in 7,431 Posts
Quote:
I heard Facebook banned eggplant and peach emojis recently... like there aren't any number of other symbols people will use in their place!
So we can't sustain the only thread keeping this website alive, but we can talk about that fine example, Facespook??

I'm here as a refuge from social media. And emojis are a reversion to hieroglyphics. We need more precision in communication, not less.

Malapropism is bad enough. Signal-to-noise ratio

What do you think of my theory that's it's pressure from all these new advertisers?

OTOH, the "school girl' in the JCPenney ad was.... Okay? Can I start posting comparables?
__________________
.
.
Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster

________________
.
.
Because much of what is in the published literature is nonsense,
and much of what isn’t nonsense is not in the scientific literature.
-- Sabine Hossenfelder

Last edited by freebeard; 11-10-2019 at 02:31 PM..