[opwieurposiu]

I have noticed that men and women tend to use different emoji and ascribe different meaning to them. Ex. I see the skull emoji used to indicate laughter more often used by women and crying face used more by men.

There are some tribes where men and women have completely different languages, I wonder if we will end up that way with emojis.

[IncreasePosts]

I used to use the :-P emoji on AIM as sort of "that was a joke" emoji, and if I had a nickel for every girl who thought I was flirting with them for using it, I'd have 3 nickels. Not a lot but still weird it happened 3 times. Also how I got my first girlfriend. I wasn't flirting, but she seemed to like what I was doing it so I figured let's give it a shot.

[johnisgood]

Try changing ":" to ";" and that number is going to get increased by quite a lot. :D

[burkaman]

I think you're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubang_language

It does actually seem very applicable here - it's not two different languages, but there's a seemingly random subset of words in the language that have completely different male and female versions. If emojis are part of the language, and men and women use different ones to refer to the same concepts, that's basically the same thing.

[WalterBright]

> men and women tend to use different emoji

I went through a brief emoji phase where I had to scroll through a large list of emoji to find just the right one. I eventually realized this was just stupid and use words now.

[WalterBright]

As an aside, I dislike the juvenile Apple renderings. They look like stickers that come on sheets you'd give a second grader.