[allthingslinguistic]

Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji

An interesting study by Hannah Miller and colleagues at GroupLens looks at how different people interpret emoji differently. Key quotes: 

What this figure tells us is that if an iPhone user sends a Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes to a Windows Phone, Samsung, LG, or Nexus user, the iPhone user is sending a mildly negative emoji to someone who will receive it as a relatively positive one. […]

One finding that really surprised us is that a good deal of the potential for miscommunication may come from different interpretations of the exact same emoji rendering. In other words, two people looking at the exact same emoji on the same smartphone platform can interpret that emoji quite differently. For example, in the case of the Apple emoji Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes, there were some people who thought it was more positive while others thought it was more negative. […]

Overall, we found that if you send an emoji across platform boundaries (e.g., an iPhone to a Nexus), the sender and the receiver will differ by about 2.04 points on average on our -5 to 5 sentiment scale. However, even within platforms, the average difference is 1.88 points.

The results are from their paper in the proceedings of the 2016 AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2016) – the full paper (pdf) is here. 

I’d be interested to see if people’s perceptions of emoji meaning change over time. For example, when I first used to see the face with tears of joy emoji, I used to get it confused with the crying emoji, but now I think of them as VERY distinct. And I just avoid using the Apple grinning face with smiling eyes emoji because I couldn’t figure out whether it was happy or not.

[3liza]

emoji standardization cross-platform is actually a semi-serious concern imho

[dreiklangdimension]

The Microsoft one, though.

[dexfiles]

(you have me)

[dreiklangdimension]

That's a moon, though.

[official-hannover]

Stockbrot ist super

reblog if u agree

[autismproblems]

autism problem #496

When more than one person is talking to you at a time

[autisticarchive-deactivated2019]

Reblog if you’re autistic. I want to find out just how many autistic people we are here on tumblr.

[legislacerator]

im all for taking white cis gay men down a notch bc i understand the ways in which they are privileged act in their favor and give them a large vocal part in the LGBT but to do something like that

to say that gay men don’t need reps and to pin all intracommunity problems on them is absolutely fucked up

gay men can be trans and black and disabled and mentally ill and are greatly impacted by suicide and HIV and like what the fuck

it’s fucking shameful and it’s wrong and it’s not going to fix anything

[pervocracy]

Remember back in 2010 or so, when you insisted with great fervor that copious sex had no consequences? Look at you now, struggling with depression and undergoing a biopsy on your cervix. Hardly any virgin lady deals with that. Have you decided to change your mind yet?

Well, I’m glad that whatever your sexual habits are, they’ve certainly resulted in you becoming a kind-hearted and well-adjusted individual.

[dreiklangdimension]

This is funny, because a lot of teenage girls (an age where a lot of people didn’t have sex yet) suffer from depression, but are often told that it’s not real and for attention. Can’t win.

[beardyboywonder]

every gamer’s reaction upon finding a blood-covered room: well that’s not good

[honeystopthecar]

I am pretty sure that is not exclusive just to gamers.

[dreiklangdimension]

afd: here, i've made a Wahlergebnis

everyone else: you fucked up a perfectly good landtag is what you did. look at it. it's got racism.

[inoffizielles-deutschland]

[dreiklangdimension]

Jesus fucking CHRIST. 

Nazis are really back in German politics.

[germanlanguagerocks]

Wie viel Prozent Hipster bist Du wirklich?

Bist Du vielleicht mehr Hipster, als Dir lieb ist?

23% und ihr so?

[official-goethe]

23% … ich hätte ehrlich gesagt Schlimmeres erwartet

[official-baden-wuerttemberg]

0% Hipster ;)

[gutmensch]

19%

ich bin 2007-emo, kein 2011-hipster leutz

[twinkundeath]

so schnell kanns gehen

[dreiklangdimension]

Gleiches Resultat.

Well, that escalated quickly.

[lesbianredpanda]

ATTN TRANS WOMEN: Please be aware of “@real//trans//advocacy”; block if necessary

[dreiklangdimension]

So, basically:

Her: Stop using ‘mtf’, it’s transmisogynistic. 

Him: Absolutely not, it’s neutral, it’s not transmisogynistic, I’m not transmisogynistic. Because I say so.

Him: Also, you’re a h*e.

...

how does this happen?

[npdrat-deactivated20160707]

@warriorsdebt: if youre going to attempt to respond with more homophobic bullshit, do not do so on that post. OP doesnt want drama.

[warriorsdebt]

I mean if you’d literally bothered to read the post at all you would have seen the part where i am a lesbian who is a victim of corrective rape and who has been forcibly institutionalized and who has been subject to medical abuse and nonconsensual medical procedures in an attempt at conversion therapy and that all of these things have happened to me both because of my lesbianism AND my asexuality. You would have seen how I talked about my lesbian girlfriend who I, a lesbian, was in a lesbian relationship with, who repeatedly raped and abused me when I came out as asexual to her because she believed she could fix it for me. None of that shit happened because people thought I was a closeted lesbian, I’ve been an OUT lesbian for over a decade. It happened because I was fucking ace. It wasn’t misdirected anything. So fuck ALL THE WAY OFF with any suggestion that I don’t fucking understand this shit on an extremely personal level. And if you’d read it, at all, you would have noticed that I was talking about HOW INCREDIBLY FUCKING HURTFUL it is to be left high and fucking dry without any terminology to describe some of the most horrifyingly traumatic things that have ever fucking happened to me, because someone decided for their fucking selves that my experiences aren’t what they are, and robbed me of any language to actually describe the people who did it to me or the reasons they might have done it. You would have noticed that I was talking about HOW INCREDIBLY HURTFUL it is to be told, over and over and over and over again that the language of the community that has been the biggest factor in my healing is somehow responsible for completely unrelated acts of the same violence I experiences, when there is not the tiniest iota of truth to that, and you will never ever convince me that I don’t deserve to have a term that describes people who are not me. Especially given that I never fucking once said anything about allo privilege. I never said that all allo people of all stripes are universally privileged for being allo, or even privileged at all for being allo, because as I think I’ve mentioned once or twice now, I AM A FUCKING LESBIAN and I know that’s not true. Not every fucking descriptor comes with a privilege label, y’all are the ones putting it there.  And if someone, personally, is triggered by the “sexual” part of “allosexual” even though that’s not what the fuck it means no matter how much anybody screams to the contrary that’s fine. But saying “please don’t use this word about me because it triggers me” is a far fucking cry from saying “you are not allowed to have any word at all ever that describes people who don’t share your experiences.” Because at the end of the fucking day, allo/zed/whatever describes people who are capable of experiencing attraction. It doesn’t say one fucking word about how they express or act on that attraction or in what ways they are punished or privileged for feeling or expressing it. That’s projection through and fucking through and it serves no useful purpose.

[geekandmisandry]

I’m offended, aren’t you a biphobe as well? Or is that word just not snappy and reaction grabbing enough for The Discourse?

It’s amazing the shit allos will pull to defend our bigotry sometimes, including using triggers to attack the use of specific language invented to address issues.

Like calling a lesbian a homophobe because… *scans through the drama*… Oh yes, because they DARED to say that the term allosexual is useful to them. Wow.

My sexuality is hypersexualised, for sure, and as a rape victim this hypersexualisation can leave me feeling extra fucking awful and feeling like I have to choose between embracing a sexual stereotype I don’t fit into or being open about my trauma.

Hypersexualisation sucks, but that isn’t the fault of ace people? And it’s certainly not what the term allosexual is for. It means “not asexual, experiencing sexual attraction”. Which is in NO way hypersexualising anybody under that term.

Like, it genuinely sucks if the term triggers people, but I’ve heard that same excuse from Terfs who don’t want to hear the term “cis”, and your triggers (though sad) are not a reason for whole communities not to use important terminology.

It’s also amazing how a lesbian can be completely thrown under the bus and accused of homophobia so that people don’t have to hear ace people. To call rape victims bigots for wanting to be able to talk about their experiences, classy.

[dreiklangdimension]

Having a word to describe people who are ‘not like you’ is important for marginalized people. Usually, the only other alternative is ‘normal’.

“I am x and they are normal.” And this is no way of living.

“I am x and they are y.“ changes that dynamic. Whatever ‘y’ may be (cis, straight, white, allo, NT, allistic, dyadic, able-bodied ...), it is usually not an insult, but a descriptor that is needed.

[dearfeminists-deactivated201604]

Dear Feminists,

Why is it that you have no problem talking trash about an 8 year and commenting about how ugly and disgusting the little girl is and how she’s a racist and you hope she gets run over by a bus for wearing a kimono because it’s cultural appropriation. Yet when an adult black model does the exact same thing it’s suddenly empowering and you only comment with support for her?

[Picture on the left is of a young White child dressed as a geisha.

Picture on the right is of Ariana Miyamoto, a biracial Japanese woman who won Miss Universe Japan, dressed in a kimono and patting a golden retriever]

[bornabitch-allthedaysandnights]

The awkward moment when the woman on the right is half-Japanese woman and 2015 MISS UNIVERSE JAPAN Ariana Mamiko Miyamoto. LOL ‘black model,’ my ass.

LOL way to prove your racism OP. Bigots say ‘sjws only care about skin color they don’t care about culture!’ and then the bigots go and prove that they’re the only ones focusing on skin color.

Also please note that Ms. Miyamoto is wearing her (REAL) kimono correctly and not using racist stereotypes & yellow face, and the parents of the child on the left are using stereotypes & yellow face to designate ‘Japanese-ness.’ Because ultimately that’s where the fault lies, in the parents that taught their daughter that these racist stereotypes are valid, not in the little girl who doesn’t know any better.

[dthefraud]

I don’t believe for a second anyone actually said this kid should be run over, let alone that this is a general, accepted wish amongst people who think this is cultural appropriation.

Pro injustice never get tired of self-trolling and lying, because the truth makes no difference to them at all. They hate marginalized people and just want any excuse to attack them and to get other bigots to join in. Facts aren’t relevant or necessary

[dreiklangdimension]

Ariana Mamiko Miyamoto IS Japanese. She is not appropriating her own culture. How would that even work?

How can anyone actually make this argument?

[undiagnosedautismfeels]

Sorry if this isn't the best place to ask, but I'm kind of interested in other people's types. With the I forgot what they are called things. I always get INTJ, occasionally INFJ (I find 1/4 of the questions hard to interpret so probably why I vary), what do other people get?

The Meyers-Briggs test? I’m either INTJ or INTP, depending on the test. What’s everyone else?

[dreiklangdimension]

I always get INTJ. I think the test is fun, but nothing more though.

[autismproblems]

So my parents want to file for extended guardianship and don't want me to go to college out of state because they think it will be too much change for me (I also have depression and an anxiety disorder, so that could also have something to do with it.), but I really want to go to some sort of performing arts school in New York because theatre is basically my life and I feel like my parents add to my depression. I was told I can fight against guardianship, but how do I build a case against it?

I don’t know. Can somebody help this person?Maybe if you asked people at ASAN, they might know?I’m wishing you the best of luck, anon. That’s terrible situation to be in. I hope you get free. I hope you get to go to the school you want to, going to performing arts school in New York sounds like a really great thing.

[dreiklangdimension]

When my parents did something similar (not becoming my guardian, but getting me one) my therapist was very much against it. I did not protest at all though, and I never brought that up. I wonder if getting your therapist to speak up against it may help (asuming you have one). 

Getting rid of guardianship again is hell. Having one had no purpose other than calming my parents. I’m glad it’s over.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Pro-Choice is a question of bodily autonomy.

You can’t steal someone’s kidney to save a life. You can’t commander a uterus like some kind of fucking organ pirate to bring a life into the world. 

[vongiraffe]

Those are two seperate things. Why do you make so many false comparisons?

[kuroba101]

In what sense is bodily autonomy different to bodily autonomy?

[dreiklangdimension]

You can’t even forcefully take a liver from a dead body to save a live, THAT much body autonomy is granted to a corpse. It is insofar the same: * a life form needs someone else’s organs in order to survive. * the other human will (likely) survive this, although there are huge complications involved. (I am, btw, all for mandatory organ donation. A corpse is a corpse, the icky feeling of not wanting to be cut open after death does not equate someone else’s need for a new heart.)

[geekandmisandry]

This. Some want pregnant people to have less rights than dead people.

(Also I’m pro “opt out” system, you’re automatically a donor unless you sign up to opt out)

[dreiklangdimension]

I forgot that a liver is not a kidney, though. I meant to say kidney. English is not my native language.