Ah yes, Unicode is a nice option, too. Often the best of both worlds.
From what I read, “smiley” (pl smilies / smileys) is normally another word for emoticon, and not for emoji.
Ah yes, Unicode is a nice option, too. Often the best of both worlds.
From what I read, “smiley” (pl smilies / smileys) is normally another word for emoticon, and not for emoji.
A while back another board I use to frequent changed their set of emojis. My complaints went unheard, so I decided to use emoticons instead. Wait, I think it’s actually the very emoji set as on this board, haha!
Anyway, I wasn’t aware of that distinction either. So thanks for that @ralphm! :~)
Heh, yes, that happened here, too, when we switched platforms. Quite a few members still pine for the old vBulleting emojis. Indeed, some people still use them here.
Who? Where?
I didn’t know the difference until a few weeks ago.
I’m still trying to find a smiley with a rotating head, The Exorcist style
Just noticed I have my own smiley
See - there were just so many good ones on vBulletin which are missing on Discourse.
prefer emojis, a lot easier!
Thank you.Glad to learn this. Personally, I prefer emojis. They are more like a face and deliver expressions no less than emoticons. Maybe, because I’m childlike. Children always love picture stuff.
I still call them all Smiley.
Me too… And feel super confident to say it out loud here…
I like emojis… wink (written word) would never look as good as the emoji itself.
Well, that’s new for me too. The more you live…
Cool! I thought they were just the same… Now I’m starting to learn something in this forum aside from the more on techie side. Thanks!
Well…you learn something new every day! I honestly thought they were the same thing, and did wonder why we started calling them emojis instead of emoticons, I assumed it was just an evolution of the word or something…good to have it cleared up! So on that note, I would vote for emojis over emoticons
Ponderism for today:
Can a SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) be considered an emoticon? Reason for asking is because it is made up of keyboard characters and can render either images or text?
Why prefer Emoticons over Emojis?
Sometimes it’s little confusing to actually type an emoticon.
I like the ASCII simplicity, personally. A lot of emoji present a pretty weird interpretation of various emotions, too, which puts me off.
Not sure, though I think of emoticons as limited to what you can do with typable or copy/pastable characters. I’d prefer it to stay simple!
Depends how lazy I am, if it’s possible to put an emoji quickly, I’d choose that, but in forums and quick chats smilieys like these