Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 20, 2020

I agree with Frazz.

I’ve got this whole rant about how kids who grow up with alphabetic (or syllabary) languages can learn to read and write in first grade, and be reasonably fluent at reading anything by about 7th or 8th grade. Whereas ideographic written languages require a student to learn thousands of “characters” and learn new ones for every new word (nearly), and they’re never really done learning new ideographs. It takes many more years.

Emojis are just another form of ideograph.

Who’s going to be the 21st century Robert Cawdrey to create the first emoji dictionary?

Here comes dat bear.

People who write these sorts of things haven’t applied for a job lately. People sure do still care about spelling.

He’s saying someone’s a silly man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat.

Well, kid, it’s obvious – it means “Anyone who thinks emojis are a proper substitute for language is less intelligent than a trained bear”.

spelling IS important. unfortunately my husband got a very poor education. i had to go with him to file for unemployment because he couldn’t read the ?s and at times read the /s for him for different documents we had to sign together. his boss had to read out the ?s when it came to periodic updates on his job training. spelling and reading go hand in hand!!!!!!!

Robert Pack?

Frazz is, for some reason, responding with “The Hotel New Hampshire”.

The amazing thing about a bear riding a unicycle is not how well he does it, but the fact that he can do it at all

I think it would pay us to develop telepathy. Emojis are a fad. With telepathy we’d have a lot more to complain about!

Anyone who’s ever tried to read Chaucer knows why spelling counts.

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17 hrs · I probably ought to have more of an opinion on emojis than I do. After all, I communicate with images. And I admit I put a little more work into those images than just picking a face or a vegetable or a hand doing something or, well, there’s some out there I don’t really know what they’re supposed to be or convey. But I don’t mind when other people use them, just like (I suppose) professional mathematicians don’t mind when I use the calculator on my phone to figure out a tip.

Besides, I have to save all my anger energy for when auto-correct changes a perfectly good word into the wrong one. That’s so sexy Viking. Augh! Vexing, dammit! VEXING!

Humanity spends millennia to come up with written language that represents the spoken word and eliminate the clumsy use of pictographs. And in less than a generation it gets thrown away. Tell me again why it’s better to be a dumbed down millennial than a boomer.

Only an insane society would consider shifting from a defined alphabet language to a system of hieroglyphics that not everyone recognises the same way as an improvement, (example of misunderstanding is someone mistaking a poop emoji for a symbol for ice cream and inviting someone over to enjoy some with them by using the emoji symbol)