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The People Deserve a Guillotine Emoji

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 21 2020, @03:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the succinct-and-to-the-point dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay4kb/guillotine-emoji-unicode

When you want to express your complete rage at the incompetence of leadership over text, in a way that says "I would like to see their heads removed at the neck with a large falling blade and rolled into little baskets" but less literal and more succinct, an emoji would help a lot.

Sadly, there is no guillotine emoji, despite "guillotine them" being the ruling sentiment of the pissed-off proletariat for the last... well, probably many years, but more lately, as tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in protests around the world.

Lisbon-based artist Carrozo is lobbying the Unicode Consortium to include a guillotine in its next emoji update, and has sent an application outlining why the people need the 18th century execution machine in their emoji lexicon.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bart9h on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:14AM (7 children)

    by bart9h (767) on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:14AM (#1024444)

    They are not glyphs in any real written language.

    What about Japanese, Chinese, and other written languages where the symbols are pretty much like drawings?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:21AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:21AM (#1024446)

    They may be "pretty much like drawings", but they are in fact writing glyphs in a real written language. Emoji are not.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:31AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:31AM (#1024447)

      Not... yet. 😎

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:34AM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:34AM (#1024450)

        Yeah, I know. 💩

        • (Score: 2) by Mykl on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:57AM (2 children)

          by Mykl (1112) on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:57AM (#1024458)

          They certainly fulfill the purpose of a language, which is to convey ideas and information.

          But I seriously doubt that a guillotine will be added, given they are already walking back from the gun emoji.

          Gotta love that the left are now into making death threats too. I thought that was something that they didn't like about the right?

          • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @05:12AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @05:12AM (#1024465)

            You must have missed the asterisk. Whenever the left says "you shouldn't do such a thing," there's always a footnote saying "We should be doing it instead."

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @07:59PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @07:59PM (#1024726)

            Democrats aren't left. Leftist anarchists and nihilists were all about assassination and terrorism.

    • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Wednesday July 22 2020, @12:07PM

      by bart9h (767) on Wednesday July 22 2020, @12:07PM (#1024909)

      Actually, there are a lot of glyphs in Japanase that are actually drawings, like "people", "tree", "forest", and a lot more.