They’re calling emojis “hieroglyphs” again and I should be allowed to do a little grievous bodily harm as a treat. The only way you escape is if you can show me examples of a tense system, a nominal phrase, and an adverb using emojis. If not, well, then it’s clobbering time.
👁️⌛🌡️🛀🏼🌛 (I took a hot bath last night)
🤕🚙🏥 the sick man drives himself to the hospital
🧑🏼🎤🗣️🔊🙉 the frontman sings loudly
Failure.
Where are your prepositions? A definite article can be inferred, but ones like “to” or “in” cannot be as they convey something essential.
Where are your pronouns? How do these change between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person? I don’t see an emoji for “himself” that is clearly defined as that and nothing else.
Where is the temporal case? “Last night” isn’t conveyed purely by a moon. A moon does convey a sense of night, but it doesn’t have temporal marker. It could be last night, tonight, or tomorrow night. The hieroglyphic script can write words that take grammatical markers to indicate the temporal, emojis do not.
A person with green hair does not accurately convey the concept of “front man”
What are the phonemes of each sign? Can they be used to build other words where the depiction of the sign has little to no meaning in relation to the word it is writing. For instance, 𓁹 can be used in the word jr.t “eye” but also the verb “ir” to make/do.
Clobbering time!
