Emojis generally replace the period but come after a question mark or exclamation point.
Can I borrow your pen? 😊
I borrowed your pen 😅
You little shit! 👿
This looks best to me.
What if there are multiple sentences?
After… I’ve said what I have to say, now I’m making a face at you. See?
After. It’s a visual commentary on the text you just wrote. It’s not part of that text.
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👏Around👏everything👏.👏
“😻An🫶empty🚫space👩🚀without✋️an💙emoji💩is💯wasted♻️potential🧠” -Mark Twain
I treat them as a separate element to the text, and as such aren’t really part of the punctuation or grammar, so I try to keep any at the end of the entire message to convey the actual expression I had making it. 😉
I just treat them like the floating pics in a word documentation. So ba👌sically anywhere.
IMO, they generally replace a period, comma or exclamation when used. In the cases where it’s a necessary question mark or something like that, I’d put the emoji after👍
yep, to me emojiis and emoticons act as punctuation. helps keep things more casual :3
Never, is the appropriate answer.
They’re for languages when mood cannot be derived from wording alone. So, sometimes? 🤷♂️
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Great question. 🤔
I think so as well 😁.
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It sounds like you don’t consider emojis appropriate. How come?
Have an urgent message you want to send to someone who is not uptight or a snob? In the same way in which people smile to be kind or be welcoming, I use emojis:
“Thanks for the file ☺️”
In the same way that people mirror emotions, I use emojis: “I’m sorry about the presentation 😢” “Yeah. Those reports can take quite a while to digest 😅”
In the same way that emotionally intelligent people are candid and therefore vulnerable and able to connect with others, I use emojis*: “It’s taking forever to load 😭” “I’m kinda nervous about tomorrow’s meeting 😬”
*Of course, my dumb ass is far from emotionally intelligent. I just strive to create connection.
I recognize that, at times, a social situation could seem to demand deference beyond emojis. At the same time, there are many situations where emojis could be appropriate. I am trying to let you see why and in what contexts someone would use emojis ☺️.
Also, there’s the whole Poe’s Law issue. Emojis can help with clarity.
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So do you also expect everyone over 12 to always keep a pokerface in real life conversations, or is this rule confined to virtual spaces for some arbitrary reason?
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Well you’re also not going around holding written pieces of text to someone’s face to talk to them in real life, yet that’s how we’re communicating here, and you don’t seem to find that weird. It doesn’t need to be the same to be a helpful analogue. Sounds from your mouth -> written text, facial expressions and gestures -> emoji/emoticons. There’s actual research demonstrating that people actually do parse and react to emojis and emoticons in the same way they would to real facial expressions.
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Should not be placed
If one is going to use emojis, it is contextual.
An emoji is roughly equivalent to body language, facial expressions, and/or audible cues. They should be inserted wherever the intended action would occur.
An example: man, I laughed my ass off. 🤣
Would be acceptable, but: man, I laughed my ass off🤣. would be better because the laughter is integral to the sentence.
However; man, I laughed 🤣 my ass off. would also be acceptable because it is being used to demonstrate the action.
Something like: cats make my heart happy. 💓 😊
Would need it to be outside the sentence because it reinforces the message instead of being part of the message.
Emojis can be the equivalent of hand movements in a way, so where they get placed is about where you would place a gesture.
Before :). Otherwise I am getting angry ಠ_ಠ. Smilies add context to the current statement. So a smilie afterwards just catches the overall vibe. 😌🤓😌 And this may be rude to someone. 🙄
