Phake Nick wrote, > By the standard of "if one can't string word together that speak for > themselves can use otger media", then we can scrap Unicode and simply use > voice recording for all the purposes. →_→
Not for me, I can still type faster than I can talk. Besides, voice recordings are all about communicating by stringing words together. >> These are rhetorical questions. > > Tonal emoticon for telephone or voice transmission? There are tones for > voice based transmission system > And yes, there are limits in these technology which make teleconferencing > still not all that popular and people still have to fly across the world > just to attend all different sort of meetings. At least, that's what they tell their accountants and tax people, right? > Emoji is part of the literacy. Remember that Japanese writing system use > ideographic characters plus kana, it won't be odd to add yet another set of > pictographic writing system in line to express what you don't want to spell > out. Yes, it's a done deal. For better or for worse.