The Emoji Conundrum..
Are you a fifty something mind trapped in a twenty something body?
Sounds befuddling? Well let us know a story…
Let us not take names ( What’s in a name anyway). So say a Y person who would sincerely read texts in a whatsapp group chat and shyly avoid replying is suddenly bound to respond because of the lockdown. This person Y is the part of the woke culture by age and not by mind. Hence Y is completely taken aback by the use of emojis. Y had just learnt how to carefully pick and drop words. “ I am so angry” is a much lower level sign of rage than “ I’m fine”and to Y’s rescue at that point of time was tone.. but what Y has now is just EMOJIS.
Well Y being Y did not understand the meaning of any of these and was completely at a loss. Scratching Y’s big pile of messy hair.. Y thought of emoji dictionary.( By the way there is an Emoji dictionary https://emojipedia.org/)
Dear Y was facing the struggle of text-tone and emoji-tone simultaneously. Y thought of a bit of research and finally went back to lead a resigned life before life resumed. Or will it? Or is this the life ahead? Is it a new language waiting to be upgraded in our system or just a passing phase? Then should we not have lessons and tutorials? (Could not find any such tutorial and I am actively searching for one)
Note: I am not Y.
