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bioluminosity · 9 months

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stuff I made for the emblematic contest (not all were submitted)

#my art #destiny 2 #emblems #emblematic #??#tags so i can find em later ig #graphic design

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superlinguo · 17 days

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New gesture Emoji in Unicode 15.1: Head Shaking Horizontally and Head Shaking Vertically (aka shake and nod!), and (finally) right facing emoji

Unicode 15.1 will be rolling out to phones and computers across this year. It will include lots of new CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) ideographs, some new line-breaking rules for syllabic scripts, and a handfull of new emoji! There's a phoenix, a breaking chain, a lime and a brown mushroom, as well as new family silhouettes and a handful of existing emoji, but now facing rightward!

Below are illustrations of the set from a recent Emojipedia summary of the 15.1 update.

The two emoji I'm most excited about are Head Shaking Horizontally and Head Shaking Vertically. That's head shaking and head nodding to you! I wrote these proposals with Jennifer Daniel and the Unicode emoji subcomittee team.

Why the more elaborate names? Well, Unicode tend to describe emoji by form, not function. That's for very good reason, because a head nod might be agreement for you, but in other cultures a vertical movement of the head can mean disagreement. This has provided a double challenge for emoji designers, who have to both show movement and also facial features that aren't too positive or negative. Below are the Emojipedia pair. They've done a great job.

These two emoji are actually made by combining a classic emoji face wtih the horizontal (🙂‍↔️) or vertical arrows (🙂‍↕️ ) using a special Unicode character called a Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ, 'zwidge' to it's friends), which means that even though they're two characters they smoosh together to create one emoji. It's the same process that makes all the different flags, as well as the gender and skin tones.

In fact, all of the emoji in 15.1 are combinations using the ZWJ mechanism; including the phoenix (🐦‍🔥), lime (🍋‍🟩) and brown mushroom (🍄‍🟫 ). Those new right-facing emoji are a combination of the usual left-facing emoji and a rightward arrow🚶‍➡️ .

It's exciting that Unicode have decided to try this set of right-facing characters. Many emoji are left-facing, which is a legacy of their Japanese origins (the word order in Japan means that right-facing makes sense). I've been complaining about emoji directionality since 2015, and I'm glad that this update will mean that lil emoji dude can finally escape a burning building for those of us with a left-to-right writing system and Subject Verb Object word order. They've started with a bunch of people in motion. It will be interesting to see if this set is where it stops or not.

(no no buddy!! To the exit!!)

The use of the ZWJ is an elegant solution because it means that you don't have to make a whole new codepoint for the emoji, it just uses the old one. If someone doesn't have their phone or computer update to 15.1 then it should fall back to just showing 🚶‍➡️, which somewhat conveys the intent. That's the magic of a good ZWJ combination.

Earlier posts on emoji gesture

Gesture emoji: contributing to the Unicode standard

New Publication: The Past and Future of Hand Emoji

Gender Variations for Person in Suit Levitating Emoji - Emoji Proposal

New draft emoji include 3 proposals I co-wrote!

Emoji as Digital Gestures in Language@Internet [Open Access]

Earlier posts on emoji directionality

Emoji Deixis: When emoji don’t face the way you want them to

Don’t run towards the fire (the on-going problem with emoji directions)

#emoji #language #linguistics #unicode #directions #gestures #emblems

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the-light-finds-its-way · 11 months

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bungie.net/redeem

#d2 #destiny 2 #emblems

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chasingrainbowsforever · 1 year

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~ Colors ~ Aqua ~

#cars #autos #emblems #chrome #taupe chrome #aqua taupe #aqua #aqua brown #aqua silver #aqua taupe silver

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the-astral-express-archive · 3 months

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Honkai: Star Rail | Emblems of the 5 Family Branches From "It's Always Night in Penacony" Special Program Guest Announcement

#Honkai Star Rail #Faction Introduction #The Family #Emblems

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sictransitgloriamvndi · 5 months

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#art #engraving #illustration #book #emblems #symbols #memento mori #1700s art #german art #figurative art #art print #degustat amara #johann andreas thelott #j.c. kolb #johann christoph kolb #johann christoph böcklin #andreas maschenbauer #augsburg

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carefreejules · 1 year

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Here is all of volume 1 of my Fire Emblem Engage charms, coming soon!

#fire emblem #fire emblem engage #fe engage #fe17 #emblems #jewels art

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stone-cold-groove · 2 months

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Corporate identities, logos, icons, emblems, symbols and insignia.

#logos #icons #emblems #corporate identity #symbols #illustration #design #graphic design #insignia #advertising #visual communication #visual metaphors #visual arts #graphic arts #logotypes #logo design #typography #identity

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flagwars · 8 months

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Heraldry and Emblem Wars Finals

#polls #heraldry #heraldry and emblem wars #mexico #kyrgyzstan #coat of arms #emblems #tumblr tournament #tournament poll #tournament

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pigeon-zz · 7 months

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Tf2 emblem stickers i made for me and my friends

#tf2 #tf2 medic #tf2 soldier #tf2 sniper #tf2 demoman #tf2 heavy #emblems #stickers

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thebeautifulbook · 2 months

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SYMBOLA DIVINA AND HUMANA PONTIFICVM, IMPERATORUM, REGUM [aka DIVINE AND HUMAN SYMBOLS OF PONTIFICE, EMPERORS, KINGS] by AEgidiys Sadeler (1568-1629) (Prague: 1600).

German emblems. Text in Latin. 60+ pages of illustrations. Later published with commentary by Jacob Typot and Anselm Boéce de boodt.

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#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #old books #17th century #book design #symbols #emblems #germanic

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scotianostra · 9 months

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Edinburgh Castle.

Scottish National War Museum.

Having visited the castle too many times to remember I thought I'd grab some pics that are a wee bit different from the norm, possibly things you never paid much attention to, here's the first few.

The National War Museum is adorned with many features by various sculptors. It's not easy getting all the info on them all, but I will give a run down on them with what I think are the correct details .

First up are the easy ones, the shields of all the Forces are represented around the building, first up are the Royal Medical Corps and The Royal Air Force, the latter is by Pilkington Jackson, I would guess the first is also by him. in my opinion Jackson's most famous work is the Statue of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn.

The statues are figures representing Virtues, Justice and Courage by Musselburgh born Alexander Carrick. If you have visited the castle, whether just the esplanade and the drop bridge with the gates, well Carrick made the statue on the right, it's a guy called Sir William Wallace.

#Edinburgh #edinburgh castle #Scottish national war memorial #statues #emblems #shields #memorials #my pics

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superlinguo · 5 months

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New Research Article: From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: Emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture

In this new article I get to bring together three of my favourite things: gesture, science fiction and working with the best collaborators. I teamed up with genre author and creative writing expert Dr Peta Freestone and corpus whiz Jess Kruk to look at the different ways scifi gestures also have lives in the real world.

We used emoji evidence to look at the ways use of the Vulcan Salute (🖖) on Twitter references Star Trek, as well as nerd culture in general. There’s no emoji for the Three Finger Salute from the Hunger Games (...yet?), so we used a newspaper corpus to see what we could learn about this gesture. It has become a gesture of protest by younger people against a variety of regimes across South and South East Asia, and is becoming untethered from its narrative origins. For this gesture, newspapers provided a good, nuanced understanding of the meaning and function of this gesture.

This article partially started out of a blog post where I was pondering fictional gestures in scifi and fantasy. The article is part of a special issue of Linguistic Vanguard on the linguistics of scifi, with a special focus on corpus methods, which was edited bySofia Rüdiger and Claudia Lange. It’s fun that this article stands alongside lots of great articles including work on the sociolinguistics of Firefly, the lexical influence of Star Wars and changing gender dynamics on Star Trek.

Abstract

Research on emblems to date has not drawn on corpus methods that use public data. In this paper, we use corpus methods to explore the use of original fictional gestures in the real world. We look at two examples from popular science fiction, the Vulcan salute from Star Trek and the three-finger salute from The Hunger Games. Firstly, a Twitter corpus of the Vulcan salute emoji shows that it is used to represent Star Trek fandom and wider nerd culture, alongside its use as a greeting. Secondly, a global news corpus shows the three-finger salute has come to be used as a pro-democracy protest gesture across political and cultural boundaries in South East Asia. These corpus studies show different trajectories for the two gestures, with the three-finger salute escaping the confines of its fictional world, while the Vulcan salute has come to stand in as a reference to the media it originated from. We conclude with a reflection on the opportunities, challenges and limitations of bringing corpus methods to gesture studies.

Reference

Freestone, P., J. Kruk & L. Gawne. 2023. From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture. Linguistic Vanguard. doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0006