Re: inclusion and diversity
I know, it's more like eggs-clusion.
British egg producers saddened by Google salad emoji update
British egg producers have expressed disappointment at the removal of the oval-shaped favourite from Google's salad emoji. The UX manager for Google emoji Jennifer Daniel confirmed the change in a Tweet. The now egg-free salad is more vegan-friendly, and therefore more inclusive, Daniel explained. There's big talk about …
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Friday 8th June 2018 09:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
Much as we celebrate diversity and inclusiveness
If the whole world reduces to the lowest acceptable common denominator between all cultures and beliefs in the name of "inclusiveness" the world will become a very boring, bland, and probably quite scary place. Being inclusive is about celebrating, or at least tolerating differences. How long will it be before going out for a curry gets you trolled for "cultural appropriation".
I agree with the above post, just make a separate emoji.
As a German contractor I used to work with said, quite succinctly "I cant eat your salads in the UK, they are just chopped vegetables, that it not a salad."
I no longer understand the world, I just live in it...
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Sunday 10th June 2018 04:37 GMT Anonymous Coward
but who, exactly?
If you mean vegans and Chocolate Factoricans need to get over it, then right on.
If you mean everyone who is upset about the decision to change a graphic, it is not "just a fucking graphic." It is an outward sign, a visible symptom of something disgusting: the mental condition leading to the decision.
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Friday 8th June 2018 09:26 GMT King Jack
I don't get it
How can any sane person become upset because and image shows an egg in a salad? You may not like eggs and not eat them but how is an egg salad offensive. I don't like the colour blue. Should I rage at the sky and demand that all pictures in the world change the colour to suit me?
When is this madness of pandering to every one going to stop. In the real world there is always going to be things you like and others don't. God I hate this generation. People should not just grow up but grow a spine too.
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Friday 8th June 2018 10:34 GMT King Jack
Re: I don't get it
Just to be clear I don't have a favourite colour. I was just trying to make a point. That the individual should change, not the world. If Vegans get to dictate stuff for everyone, then any foolishness should be allowed. Even changing every picture to please one person because in the 21st century no minority no matter how small is allowed to be upset.
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Friday 8th June 2018 12:56 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Vital office equipment.
Going off-topic here, but as most people will be aware, toasters are generally not allowed in most workplaces given how often people set off the fire alarms with them.
The only place I've seen a toaster in the office kitchen recently is, ironically, a fire service, despite the fact that upstairs in the actual offices you get shouted at if you don't not only turn off your PC on a Friday night, but also unplug it from the wall as it's a "fire hazard"
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Friday 8th June 2018 10:10 GMT Rob Fisher
Emoji not scalable
Emoji is just not scalable. It's take until now to get a hippo emoji and there are still thousands of missing animals. Every new emoji takes hundreds of person-hours of proposal writing, committee meetings, graphic design and software updates. I wanted a sprout emoji the other day, when might that appear? And I haven't even got started on minerals...
It would make a lot more sense to abandon pre-set unicode-indexed graphics and agree on a way to embed small SVG pictures into text, or some other text representation of graphics so that the sender could send any emoji without the receiver having to prepare for it in advance.
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Friday 8th June 2018 10:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
A modest proposal
We should instead prefer a restricted set of abstract symbols appropriate to representing the sounds of spoken languages. With a little effort a measure of commonality may be achieved, especially for languages of similar sound and origin. Perhaps as few as twenty-six such symbols might suffice to represent the richness of English, while still allowing for some whimsical and unpredictable combinations. Some might protest that such an approach borders upon sorcery, in honour of which perhaps we might call this form of written communication "spell-ing" ?
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Friday 8th June 2018 11:55 GMT ibmalone
Re: Emoji not scalable
We are in fact inefficiently reinventing Chinese writing. In the absence of a universal translator it's sort of useful to have quick access to little graphics of things like airplanes and toilets if you're abroad (though I've always found a phrasebook useful and camera translator apps are pretty good now), but the design by committee approach to what is now over 1.5k symbols (unicorn face? water buffalo?) not including modifiers that are now forming a very fragmented non-vocal language seems to be a waste of human effort.
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