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38 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016

posted by takyon on Monday August 24 2015, @06:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the x1F4A9 dept.

"exec" writes in with an IRC-submitted emoji update:

The candidate list for Unicode 9 is taking shape, with the final list of new emojis scheduled for approval in mid-2016.

38 emoji characters have been accepted as candidates for the 2016 Unicode update, including Face Palm, Selfie, Shrug, Fingers Crossed, and Pregnant Woman.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Appalbarry on Monday August 24 2015, @10:55PM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Monday August 24 2015, @10:55PM (#227271) Journal

    a) Couldn't care less about Emojis.
    b) Haven't used emojis, can't think of the slightest reason why I would.
    c) Hard to believe that in less than two decades we've gone from people actually worrying about keeping sigs short and tight, to save bandwidth, to stuffing comic emojis into messages.
    d) You don't need emojis. You just need words. And Intelligence. And, OK, I admit this is pushing things, some handle on spelling and grammar.

    And finally, imagine what the world would be like if the money, resources, and labour that has been put into emojis was instead devoted to Tor, PGP, and similar initiatives.

    (OK, the same can be said of cat videos.)

    And yeah, Hey you kids! Get out of the Jello Tree!

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  • (Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Tuesday August 25 2015, @06:21AM

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Tuesday August 25 2015, @06:21AM (#227426) Journal

    You just need words. And Intelligence. And, OK, I admit this is pushing things, some handle on spelling and grammar.

    ...and capitalization. ;-)

  • (Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday August 25 2015, @06:41PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Tuesday August 25 2015, @06:41PM (#227728) Journal

    I have located the only necessary addition out of the candidate emojis: 🥓!

    Once that is rendering correctly, I believe we can declare MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!