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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait it's all punctuation???

~~:.|:;~~

Ohh my god

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Oh I’m stealing that

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Listen here you little shit

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I read it as "I'm at a loss for words." right off the bat before I even realized what it was.

Clearly I have ascended to a higher plane of meme-istance

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Congratulations, you are now allergic to grass.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

~~:.|:;~~

Outstanding work, I will be using this

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

"first and only Kanji".

If English had other logograms, I 🤔 what they'd be?

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🤔💡😒

©️®️™️

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Technically kanji refers to the Japanese writing system, loss is a logogram, English already has them (see $ and @)

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My bank won't let me see any $.

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I'd say the first looks closest to a real glyph

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

~~:.|:;~~ HOLY SHIT

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~~:.|:;~~

I can be trusted with this

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You're at a loss?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Can't believe the ~~:.|:;~~ is still being felt all these years alter

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~:.|:;~~

Edit: cool

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

~~:.|:;~~

Thanks for the instructions. Have a high five followed by a fist bump.

~~! !|!!~~

And this one of a nuclear bomb exploding. Followed by a person being hit by the shock wave.

https://www.upsidedowntext.com/unicode

~~⅋|T~~

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

There's even a proper stroke order

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The hero has read a most unsettling passage

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:̶.̶|̶:̶;̶

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I'm so fucking ~~:.|:;~~ I mean what is this meme???

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

That's exactly what I was just thinking! Lemmy's formatting doesn't work the same way, so it doesn't work correctly here. I think this is the best I can get it, lol.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Well, no. It wouldn't be the first kanji of English. Kanji is the Japanese pronunciation of 漢字 (hanzi), where 漢 means han/China and 字 means character/letter. Ergo, it makes no sense to call it "the English language's first and only Chinese character."

If you need to use a Japanese word to describe this, then 絵文字 (e mo ji; picture, character/symbol) fits better, but we already have several words for that, like pictogram or pictograph. One could argue that smileys fall into this category as well. So perhaps it's a smiley.

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