East Asian languages aren’t pictograms. Most use phonetic alphabets. Among those that don’t, very few characters use visual resemblance to convey meaning, and no language uses primarily pictographical characters.
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slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You only speak one language in a sentence right? How often do you switch between languages in a single sentence?
Emoji are pictograms the same as east Asian languages are pictograms.
Wilzax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You know how many words in any language, are borrowed from other languages right? You just used a Japanese word when you said emoji.
Wilzax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
While true that the term originates from Japanese, it’s important to note that emoji is a loanword that has been adapted into english by changing its pronunciation subtly, and replacing its spelling with a phonetically similar one in an alphabet not used in Japanese.
This is similar to when words and phrases are used without much adaptation in the middle of sentences that are otherwise in a different language. There’s a certain je ne sais quoi about English and how it mixes loanwords (such as “calque”), calques (such as “loanword”, where individual parts of the word are translated then recombined) and entire unchanged terms (such as “je ne sais quoi”) freely, and to varying degrees depending on where you are and who you talk to.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
It’s a loan word, it’s still English
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ik ben talking about using geen common words in a sentence.
That was a weird sentence right? Emoji has a common use in English where ik,ben, and geen do not.
breakingcups@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What even is your point? Besides not acknowledging that language evolves.