Talk:Emoji/Archives/2009/February

Terminology

Do phrases such as "there is a hack available for jailbroken US phones to enable this feature" need cleaning up or expanding to make them intelligible to the average reader? "Jailbroken" / Jailbreak in this sense is currently not defined in any dictionary - even Wiktionary. Cfynn (talk) 04:55, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes they do - but see below. Achromatic (talk) 18:48, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

HOWTO tag

As of today, approximately half this article is "how to enable emoji on your non-Japanese iPhone" - this needs to be cleaned up considerably. Achromatic (talk) 18:48, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

I have rewritten this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Achromatic (talk • contribs) 06:01, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Example?

I don't really get it... so could maybe someone put some examples in the article? Secunda1 02:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm also curious how emoji are used and how often they're used. Are these used as often as emoticons in western text messaging? Are they used to avoid typing in other characters? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.233.109.140 (talk) 23:16, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

In the basic theory, an "emoji" should be used to represent a thing. For example, a "cloud-emoji" should be used to write out "It's going to be "cloud-emoji" tomorrow." which is equal to "It's going to be cloudy tomorrow." However, there are two more ways they can be used. As Japanese language uses kanji, emoji can be used in place of kanji or concepts and basically as a pictogram. For example, "I'm at a "dog-emoji" "cat-emoji" "shop-emoji"." is equal to "I'm at a pet shop." Another use is using an emoji as a hiragana, katakana, kanji or alphabet despite the fact that it will take more key inputs to write. For example, the zodiac sign of scorpio looks like "m" and a "full-moon-emoji" looks like "o". So combining with the other usages, it's possible to write ""cat-emoji" "ear-emoji" is "scorpio-emoji" "full-moon-emoji" "Є"." which is equal to "Neko-mimi is moe."

The amount of emoji used will depend on occasions. It will be rarely used in a business email, but in a message to a friend, it's possible to be made entirely in emoji. Here is a possible response to the question, "What did you do today?" composed entirely in emoji from my DoCoMo phone. Can you understand it? --Revth (talk) 12:58, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

"happy-face-emoji" "train-emoji" "movie-emoji" "foot-emoji" "rain-emoji" "sad-face-emoji" "zodiac-pisces-emoji" "umbrella-emoji" "zodiac-pisces-emoji" "scorpio-emoji" "hamburger-emoji" "zzz-emoji" "clock-emoji" "zzz-emoji" "sunny-emoji" "foot-emoji" "microphone-emoji" "train-emoji" "TV-emoji" "END-emoji"

This article is really pointless without pictures or examples --76.123.253.86 (talk) 18:15, 28 February 2009 (UTC)