On 2018-08-11, Charlotte Buff via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote: > There is no semantic difference between a softball and a baseball. They are > literally the same object, just in slightly different sizes. There isn’t a > semantic difference between a squirrel and a chipmunk either (mainly > because they don’t represent anything beyond their own identities just like > the majority of modern emoji inventions), but at the very least they are > *different things*.
I think you don't understand the meaning of "semantic", "literally", or "the same". Which is a pity, because I'm all in sympathy with your general attitude to emoji and Unicode. I'm not just being pedantic - I can't even work out what you're attempting to say in this paragraph. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
