• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    28 months ago

    Well of the three usages:

    • graphical echo (“I saw a cat today 🐱”)

    • mood/attitude particles (“I wish I were just a cat 😕”)

    • ideographic usage (“I saw a 🐱 today”)

    The echo is almost certainly the least useful.

    When overused gratuitously, it can be funny (NSFW examples included)!

    • Lvxferre
      link
      fedilink
      English
      28 months ago

      That overuse feels a lot like a fourth category. It’s almost meta-, as if using emojis to parody emoji usage!

      I’m not sure if it’s usage for echo or as mood particles makes me roll my eyes the most. Perhaps echo, too.

      Are you a linguist? Fabulous descriptive capabilities you have there.

      More like “ability to remember vocab from uni times” (My second grad included Linguistics, although I don’t work on the field nowadays.)