In any case, the whole fandango somehow reminds me of David Cameron's smartphone blunder, where he reportedly believed the acronym LOL to mean "lots of love", and splashed it about liberally, most notably in texts to former tabloid editors. The raised-hand emoji is never to be used, including and especially if you work within sniffing distance of the Dáil. The dead emoji (two Xs for eyes) is meant to express shock. They may be one character on your phone or keyboard, but they are loaded with meaning (oftentimes, multiple meanings, depending on the context).įor future reference, the folded hands emoji denotes praying, not a high-five. If you bandy about emojis in your conversations, just be aware of their not-inconsiderable might. Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly: Did he mean to give the CMO the brush-off? Photograph: Julien Behal (People in the United States are thought to send around 96 each a day).īut, as with Gifs, if you are going to let an emoji – any emoji – do the grunt work for you in a conversation, you’d really better know what you’re getting yourself into. Now that we are all social distancing and staring into our phones, tone of voice and body language have been swept aside, for the ease of the emoji.Īccording to a study by Swyft media, more than six billion emojis are sent around the world every day. We are living in strange and different and, yes, unprecedented times. (Were they trying to say, "Yes, you're still talking, but we're not really listening?" I suppose you'd have to ask them.) After Donnelly tweeted yesterday about Ireland's progress on the vaccine front, thousands of people simply replied with a single thumbs-up emoji. In fact – look, people are bored – a meme appears to have been born. When the exchange was reported over the weekend, in the Sunday Independent, Donnelly's wayward emoji use didn't go unnoticed. Whatever his inner thoughts or motives, news of the exchange is doing nothing to dispel the niggling sense some have that Donnelly's personal brand runs towards the smug and the snarky. If you are going to let an emoji – any emoji – do the grunt work for you in a conversation, you'd really better know what you're getting yourself into
#THUMBS UP MEANING PROFESSIONAL#
Did Donnelly really mean to give the CMO the brush-off? Is he a simply a busy man for whom brevity is key? Did he realise in the moment that this was an inappropriate response to a professional correspondence? Or is he just hopelessly out of touch with the nebulous contexts of each emoji? Let’s pause this scene for a moment, and step outside it, Matrix-style. When Holohan reiterated the seriousness of the situation some days later, texting Donnelly that the “R” number in Dublin had increased (not exactly good news), Donnelly replied with a single thumbs-up emoji. (Donnelly had said on radio that transmission was slowing in Dublin and that the outlook appeared “positive”). In Japanese, the word for poo (unko) starts, coincidentally, with the same sound as the word for luck.On October 12th the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, texted Donnelly to say that the number of Covid-19 cases in Dublin was on the rise and to advise him to be cautious in public messages about the virus in the capital. The poo emoji was actually designed as a symbol of good luck. It is a way to indicate that you don't care what the other person thinks of you. No, this is not an extremely cute emoji of a chick hatching out of an egg. It is also used to tell someone that they are basic and out of touch. The avocado emoji is not just used to indicate a delicious snack. It may look like a shooting star, but this emoji is intended to convey dizziness. These women are not just having fun, they are the Japanese versions of Playboy bunnies. This lady is not telling you she doesn't know - she is asking if she can help. She is bowing! She is performing the deep bow called dogeza in Japan. This lady sn't studying, or doing pushups. The prank was so successful that the gesture caught on, leading to the symbol to be added to the Antidefamation League's database of hate symbols. In 2017 - as a prank - members of 4chan, a fringe online message board began a campaign to flood social media with posts linking the "OK" hand gesture to the white power movement. The okay gesture is not as innocent as it may seem. What if I had been flipping them the bird all this time? It got me thinking about the secret meaning of other emojis, and why we should always think before we click. It is always sent with the intention of a slightly joyful affirmative to whatever they are asking. I have sent everyone two thumbs up emojis.
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