Of emoji, Hanzi and alchemy
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I hate emoji. You know, those colorful icons: smiley faces, sad faces, thumbs up and their countless friends that we use all the time in short text messages and email. It’s not that I’m a purist that thinks emoji spell the end of literacy, particularly among those horrible teenagers. No, quite the contrary: I know full well that language and culture have been in constant decline since at least the time of the ancient Greek; I don’t buy into this kind of stuff. I actually like icons in text.It’s about typography. I hate emoji because in almost every single messaging app and word processor, they aggressively replace my painstakingly typed ASCII emoticons and ruin the aesthetics of the message. I created a couple of examples; for starters, here’s WhatsApp’s emoji crime, taken straight from the Windows Phone app. Check out that uneven line spacing because of the smiley face:You could say, and you might be justified, that this is only my exaggerated sensitivity and I should seek coun…

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