[HN Gopher] Caution- These emoji mean different things in differ...
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Caution- These emoji mean different things in different countries
Author : donohoe
Score : 22 points
Date : 2021-10-16 15:37 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (restofworld.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (restofworld.org)
| dzonga wrote:
| I gotta hit the back button like so many times, to go back to the
| referring page. what the hell ?
| ksec wrote:
| Off-Topic
|
| Interesting, Safari treat each section as its own page and if you
| scroll up and down your back button will be filled with all those
| pages and press back go back to those sections.
|
| Chrome does the same as it is listed in the back button history,
| but pressing it go back to previous site / webpage rather than
| section.
|
| Not sure which one is the correct implementation.
| phone8675309 wrote:
| Love getting my listicle fix on Hacker News. Next you'll be
| telling me I shouldn't be ordering an Irish Car Bomb[1] at a bar
| in Belfast.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Car_Bomb
| jraph wrote:
| > Another example is [the prayer emoji], which is commonly
| interpreted as a high-five in many Western countries
|
| I live in a western country and I didn't know that. It seems to
| mean please or thank you in the team I work with.
| klyrs wrote:
| Reader mode fixes the annoying way they've broken scrolling.
|
| Amusingly, the last set bemoans the blood-filled syringe being
| replaced with a clear liquid, but shows the blood-filled
| syringe... same for the pistol, I see a revolver in the article,
| not the toy they describe. As always, emoji interpretation
| doesn't just depend on culture, but on the software context that
| it's displayed in...
| jraph wrote:
| > Reader mode fixes the annoying way they've broken scrolling.
|
| It's amazing the bullshit I unknowingly avoid by blocking
| Javascript by default. Worth a try for anyone who hasn't yet,
| just re-enable it as needed and after a few days you'll almost
| stop noticing because you will have re-enabled it on websites
| you regularly visit and that need JS. Your computer will be a
| fan, and your fan will remain quiet.
|
| I highly recommend uBlock Origin for this.
|
| I've already said this on HN several times but I call this
| "progressive degradation" (have a perfect baseline, and degrade
| it with more advanced technology). [1,2,3]
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| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20898947
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| [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23874802
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| [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23108022
| ncmncm wrote:
| Indeed, all the agonizing over ad-tracking goes right over my
| head, because the only ads I ever encounter anymore are when
| a vlogger mentions their sponsor.
|
| I use NoScript, which involves a little more engagement than
| Ublock Origin. It is remarkably helpful how tracking
| "services" label themselves for easy filtering. Of course
| this starts with Google Analytics.
|
| The article fails to mention the laughing face often misused
| by boomers in response to tragic news. But that is only
| metaphorically geographical.
| jraph wrote:
| > the only ads I ever encounter anymore are when a vlogger
| mentions their sponsor
|
| You may like SponsorBlock if you don't know this browser
| extension yet.
| skocznymroczny wrote:
| Yeah, I'm confused too. I bet they assume iOS emojis are what
| everyone sees. With Chrome under Windows, I see blood syringe,
| but also see a water gun.
| culpable_pickle wrote:
| From the first page,
|
| "Similarly, in Mexico, -- often taken to mean "solidarity" or
| "resistance" elsewhere -- is actually closer to giving someone
| the middle finger in the U.S. (Technically, it bids the receiver
| to do something unconscionable to their own mother.)"
|
| I have never heard of being offensive, nor would I have
| considered it such receiving it.
|
| Has anyone else found this to be true?
| snypher wrote:
| I think fist-fingers-out has a 'resist' meaning but a fist-
| fingers-in can be used as a 'polite' middle finger. I've never
| seen someone in the USA use it that way, but I have in
| Australia.
| leshenka wrote:
| Remember that if anyone tells you that "ok hand" is a far right
| "white power" sign -- they've fallen for 4chan meme.
| mweberxyz wrote:
| White supremacists took the 4chan meme and ran with it. Even if
| it started as a meme, it's now reality.
| skocznymroczny wrote:
| Weird, I always viewed praying hands as praying hands.
|
| but then, for a decade I thought <3 is kissing lips seen from the
| side, rather than apparently a heart.
| ekianjo wrote:
| > And the infamous is actually a symbol of good luck.
|
| No, not always. If you want to signify good luck you would use
| the golden unko instead.
|
| Too many generalities in this pseudo-article.
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