by bww on 8/30/24, 6:25 PM
> You'll notice I added four "food" emojis: the crab, shrimp, squid, and lobster. I have no idea why they were assigned "food-marine" instead of "animal-marine". They look happy, healthy, and uncooked.
On Apple platforms, at least, all the crustaceans mentioned are red and therefore look very much cooked.
by jurassicfoxy on 8/30/24, 6:38 PM
I just want to say, I love emojis. I wish there were thousands more. I love the artistry, the stylistic differences between platforms. I love the way their meaning changes with the times. I love it all.
by IncreasePosts on 8/30/24, 7:00 PM
> Why is there only one amphibian?
Because amphibians are essentially made up of frogs/toads, salamanders, and caecilian.
People like frogs, it is an important emoji to have.
Salamanders on a small scale look too similar to a lizard.
Caecilians on a small scale look too similar to worms or snakes.
So the only reasonable amphibian to have an emoji is a frog.
by madmountaingoat on 8/30/24, 7:15 PM
This glosses over the real crimes. 103 Chordates, 12 Arthropods, 3 Molluscs, 3 Cnidarians and 1 Annelid. That leaves 27 phylum unaccounted for at all.
by PaulHoule on 8/30/24, 8:14 PM
My strongly held opinion is that dragons are dinosaurs and like dinosaurs and birds are in the group Archosauria so I'd be inclined to lump dragons in with birds. This explains why you never see dragons because you never see dragons for the same reason you never see dinosaurs.
by bastawhiz on 8/30/24, 6:39 PM
I suspect many people coming here from companies with Slack will be proud to be celebrating the singular amphibian that's anthropomorphized as the unmistakable Bufo emoji collection.
by dietrichepp on 8/30/24, 6:25 PM
It’s a common misconception that dragons are reptiles. The are actually mammals. For some reason, historical depictions of dragons depict them with scales—this is inaccurate, real dragons have fur, give live birth, and even produce milk. I think the misconception of dragons as reptilian has an origin in early European depictions of dragons. Dragons are not native to most parts of Europe so we can assume that the artists never saw a real dragon. You can see similar inaccuracies in depictions of other animals, like lions, leopards, beavers, and elephants.
You’d think the Unicode consortium would know better. Dinosaurs are also miscategorized as reptilian but I can understand the mistake, because dinosaurs are extinct.
by codeflo on 8/30/24, 8:18 PM
Regarding the suggested categorization: Why is a dragon considered “grounded”? Why is a scorpion considered more “squishable” (good luck!), than a lizard?
by blendergeek on 8/31/24, 11:42 AM
by moralestapia on 8/30/24, 6:35 PM
An axolotl emoji is desperately needed, then :).
by riffraff on 8/30/24, 8:02 PM
Wait, those two camels ain't both camels, one is a dromedary!
Tho the dromedary is the one used for the camel cigarettes, which is confusing.
by tantalor on 8/30/24, 7:44 PM
Snails aren't bugs!
by PaulHoule on 8/30/24, 10:17 PM
by deepsun on 8/30/24, 6:25 PM
And why dinosaurs are in reptiles, but birds are not?
by not_your_mentat on 8/30/24, 8:46 PM
Someone has to have already made a YouTube channel in which they eat every animal represented by an emoji.
by amelius on 8/30/24, 6:30 PM
Why can't we give every page on Wikipedia a Unicode codepoint, and let DALL-E draw an emoji?
by nnbvvklduwiw282 on 9/1/24, 2:35 PM
by deafpolygon on 9/1/24, 6:36 AM
How would you represent other amphibians distinctly from each other?
by atleastoptimal on 9/1/24, 5:08 AM
strangely there is no “eating” emoji, depicting a person actively consuming a food or beverage. Why is this, when it is perhaps one of the few nearly universal human behaviors
by doodlebugging on 9/1/24, 7:12 AM
That's also the only one that is in French.
by karol on 8/30/24, 7:30 PM
Fascinating!