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[โ€“] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

If you exclude 'emojis' which are literally just picture forms of characters in existing languages:

Technically, they're pictoglyphs, not hieroglyphs.

Emojis represent the literal thing they portray (pictogram), the word associated with that literal thing (logogram), and, to varying degrees to different people, represent other related concepts and associated ideas (ideogram).

Hieroglyphs do all of that, but additionally also represent spoken syllables and alphabetic characters, and follow a concrete syntax amd grammar system that allows for a much more extensive vocabulary, as well as more complex sentence structures than emojis, which have far more certain and unambiguous meanings.

As an example of that, try to represent my previous sentence using only emojis, and then present that string of emojis to a random person you know and ask them what it means.

Basically, hieroglyphs constitute an actual language, purely using emojis is playing pictionary as a means of communication.

[โ€“] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ† <- ideograms?

[โ€“] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

You got it!

A pictoglyph being used to represent something associated with the actual thing being represented, falls under ideogram.

But when your grandma sends a shopping list to you in emoji form, she probably means it as a pictogram.

... Hopefully.

[โ€“] xavier666@lemm.ee 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Listen guys, this Lemmy user is a huge nerd!

/s

Thank you, I learnt a lot.

[โ€“] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

๐“‹น๐“‘๐“‹ด

[โ€“] Skipcast@lemmy.world 39 points 6 hours ago

The house question traveled back in time, damn

[โ€“] SolidShake@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] urquell@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

โฐโ“

[โ€“] tiramichu@lemm.ee 18 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

19:00 somewhat ruined the illusion, bringing those modern Arabic numerals into the mix.

There's a perfectly good "at sunset" hieroglyphic ๐ŸŒ„

(it's technically sunrise, but okay)

[โ€“] NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 hours ago

Or even ๐Ÿ•–

[โ€“] over_clox@lemmy.world 55 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] hOrni@lemmy.world 19 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is needlessly complicated. All I need is a beer emoji and I would be at the guys house with a six pack in 15 minutes.

[โ€“] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

How? He lives 2 hours away.

[โ€“] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] xavier666@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago

Trebuchet, the superior ~~seige weapon~~ travel option

[โ€“] rockerface@lemm.ee 30 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Give it a couple millennia and they will evolve back into alphabets and syllabaries

[โ€“] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 10 points 7 hours ago

frfr no cap