Despite containing the phrase “open inside”, this is indeed a NoSafetySmokingFirst, as it reads correctly left-to-right, but one’s first instinct is to read it top to bottom.
Despite containing the phrase “open inside”, this is indeed a NoSafetySmokingFirst, as it reads correctly left-to-right, but one’s first instinct is to read it top to bottom.
Nope, the Japanese borrowed it from the ancient Greeks, who were inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphs.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emoji
No mention of Greek or Egyptian. Every entry starts with “borrowed from Japanese”.
So you actually read what I wrote and thought to yourself “yup, that guy is totally serious?”
I suppose I can’t really blame you, given the evidence of a recent election.
My apologies. Both jokes went straight over my head.
They are amusing, now that I read them in a humorous context.
There’s an emojus for that