The beginning of the year should reveal what US judges will read from venture capital investor Elon Musk’s emoji-covered tweets. Unfortunately, it probably won’t be final yet emoji-a court ruling that standardizes linguistic communication, says Kristjan Port in R2’s technical commentary.
The year that was sent away brought joy to many and sadness to others. Without upsetting the former, remember, for the consolation of the latter, that everything is transitory, just like last year. Some changes are slower. In many ways, the reason lies in people’s longevity. In the year begun, a person’s relative slowness may become commonplace in relation to artificial intelligence attempting his job. But let’s give this topic some time.
On the other hand, we must not forget that many changes hide in slowness, such as weight gain, aging and the replacement of literacy with images. Meanwhile, a generation has grown up almost unnoticed and taken on positions of responsibility, whose verbal poverty of written communication is replaced by emotional richness.
The beginning was imperceptible, when in 1982 Scott E. Fahlman, a professor of computer science at Carengie Mellon University in the United States, pondered how to distinguish the writer’s emotions in text-based electronic communication, which was still in its infancy at the time, so that readers wouldn’t mistake jokes for the truth. The essence of the joke is based on spontaneity and suggestions, without planning and announcing the desire to make a joke. Due to the technology of the time, there were characters to choose from. The icon of a smiley face, or emoticon, was born, reflecting a friendly emotion with a colon, a dash, and a parenthesis.
The emotional diversity of communication is expressed to a significant extent as an exchange of non-verbal information. As an expression of this, numerous typographical images constructed with characters representing happier, more evil and sadder contexts were soon added. However, the amount of information conveyed by emoticons is limited. Furthermore, their understanding and interpretation depends on conventions and culture. Japan thrived on words AS or face and my or star kamoji-phenomenon in which attempts were made to encode more complex visual messages in sequences of many characters.
When computers transitioned to graphical user interfaces, it was only a matter of time before character symbols were replaced by more visually rich images, from laughing or angry faces to bananas, televisions, and feces. The transmission of textual information was subject to an international standard, thanks to which letters, numbers and characters were transmitted unchanged in all linguistic environments. To ensure the same immutability to the image icons, they were soon added to the unified code table.
In 2010, a brown image resembling a smiling safflower cake became the international standard message, with the official name pile of poop. Four years later a symbol was added, described as the back of a hand facing the viewer with the middle finger raised. In English you can find a phrase by looking for an icon middle fingeralthough more common in the same linguistic space F– verbal form. People have a lot of thoughts to say to each other.
To distinguish the Spice message from the old characters, the example used in Japanese mobile communications was taken souls– a painting with cultural contexts, where the word e stands for an image and together with a letter my More graphic symbols in the icon language were named using emojiFor
It’s a matter of getting used to it. This is both in terms of interpretation of image-words, ulterior motive and seriousness. The initial desire to prevent dry messages from turning into a joke into an angry event is taking such serious forms that the parties are asking the judicial system to interpret the messages. Last year, a lawsuit began in the United States over the meaning of the rocket, bullish data chart and wallet emojis when posted on Twitter. They were attached to a speculative fake paper message.
Now they’re trying to fix it. because the complainant believed that it was a message alluding to rising stocks and getting rich quickly. While it could have been a reflection on the rising price of rockets or simply a visual aesthetic that speaks to modern times.
The year that has begun should reveal what the judges will read of it. Apparently, the final e emoji-a court decision that standardizes linguistic communication. As they say, a picture can be worth a thousand words.
Future complexity is indicated by another controversy that began last year, in which the message of the image of the moon with a cunning face is interpreted. As emoji appeared in one of the tweets describing the financial situation of the struggling company.
In addition to the image of the moon with a face that can be interpreted in many ways, the person who responded to the message is added to the information flow. The publicly known investor was known to have invested a rather large sum in the said company. The complaint submitted to the court claims that the man has implied that he knows something cunning and the value of the company will soon skyrocket. This is what happened. Mainly due to the interpretation given, not the economic results. The person who wrote the tweet earned over $60 million. The money came from the appellants.
The court accepted the case and disagreed that the crafty-faced moon said nothing. It is up to the court to decide to what extent this meant the same to the sender and the recipient. In jurisprudence, the interpretation of the intentions of the drafters of the text of the law has been a problem. Incorporating visual messages into decision-making processes adds new emotional dimensions.
It should be remembered that after purchasing Twitter, Elon Musk answered journalists’ questions with a smiling brown cupcake and sent advertisers on the journey described with the middle finger. Given that he arrived at the company headquarters with a watering can on the first day after the Twitter acquisition, you might think he would be speechless. But the thought counts.
On the occasion of the new year I wish everyone lots of sunshine! The wish does not include skin cancer, baldness, or electronic devices damaged by solar storms.
From Monday to Thursday you can listen to Kristjan Port’s technological commentary on Radio 2’s “Portaal”.
2024-01-02 12:05:00
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