[HN Gopher] Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cul...
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       Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural frequency
       for emoji
        
       Author : thunderbong
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2024-10-15 03:28 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.unicode.org)
        
       | brudgers wrote:
       | Direct to criteria:
       | https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#frequency-evide...
        
         | dang wrote:
         | I put that URL above. Thanks!
        
       | scrps wrote:
       | As much as it is meant to be a serious document for proposals I
       | started cracking up at:
       | 
       |  _The commercial petitions for taco played no part in its
       | selection; the taco was approved based on evidence in its
       | proposal, not the petitions._
        
       | Freak_NL wrote:
       | Elephants are fine animals, but the Unicode standard features a
       | distinct and disturbing lack of guinea pigs -- as well as
       | capybaras -- severely limiting the range of my digital
       | expression.
       | 
       | (I mean, if we can have 'taco'...)
        
         | tmnstr85 wrote:
         | 2nd
        
         | AceJohnny2 wrote:
         | you should start a petition!
         | 
         | (/s because from TFA "Petitions are not considered as evidence
         | since they are too easily skewed")
        
           | Dalewyn wrote:
           | Boat owner: "We have a new boat and we need a name, let's
           | have the internet vote! It can be the people's boat!"
           | 
           | Internet: "Boaty McBoatface."
           | 
           | Boat owner: "Democracy is a mistake."
        
             | akira2501 wrote:
             | "Democracy is fine. You tried to cheap out on marketing and
             | you got what you paid for."
        
             | dustyventure wrote:
             | If marketers found that any vote spontaneously creates the
             | invested interest a democratic process needs then we all
             | would have starved during the subsequent storm of pointless
             | elections.
        
         | notatoad wrote:
         | https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=elephant...
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         | capybara and guinea pig are both far less popular than taco or
         | emoji
         | 
         | interestingly, the spike of taco in google trends seems like it
         | might be correlated to it's addition to emoji - that spike
         | would be about a year after iOS got the Taco emoji.
        
           | TheAceOfHearts wrote:
           | Capybaras are a rising trend in the last few years. There's a
           | ton of fan pages with cute capybaras pictures and videos. You
           | need to invest early.
        
         | IncreasePosts wrote:
         | Without any relative scale, can you even tell the difference
         | between a capybara and a guinea pig?
        
           | Freak_NL wrote:
           | Certainly. Capybaras are semi-aquatic mammals, and their head
           | as a consequence is positioned significantly higher than
           | their bodies, resulting in a general pose which can only be
           | described as 'regally aloof'.
           | 
           | Cavies on the other hand look like adorable furry idiots with
           | a much less angular -- in fact, rotund -- outline.
           | 
           | Aside from both being rodents and (apparently) delicious,
           | these are quite different animals.
        
       | spondylosaurus wrote:
       | These guidelines note that emoji proposals for "specific people,
       | whether fictional, historic, living, or dead" will be rejected
       | outright, but most versions of the rockstar emoji are an obvious
       | Bowie homage!
        
         | Cyberdog wrote:
         | David Bowie transcends history and fiction, life and death.
        
         | shervinafshar wrote:
         | Aladdin Sane persona, to be precise: https://david-
         | bowie.fandom.com/wiki/Aladdin_Sane_(persona)
        
       | jerf wrote:
       | While a perfectly reasonable request on its own terms, it also
       | definitely reminds me of the brown M&M story, which if you are
       | one of today's 10,000 [1], is https://effectiviology.com/brown-
       | mms/ .
       | 
       | No elephant -> toss immediately. Save time.
       | 
       | [1]: https://xkcd.com/1053/
        
         | alwayslikethis wrote:
         | I'm one of them! It's a great read, thanks
        
       | dmonitor wrote:
       | > There is already an emoji for frog, which can be used to
       | represent all amphibians.
       | 
       | I'm not a big fan of this example. Does "lizard" represent all
       | reptiles? "dog" all mammals? I suppose salamanders are
       | taxonomically similar enough to lizards that specific amphibian
       | emoji aren't necessary for them, but that's not the reason given.
        
         | giraffe_lady wrote:
         | Lyra Belacqua would have been a master emoji texter.
        
       | m-hodges wrote:
       | Google has a lot of power over emojis, huh.
        
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