[:en]
Early last week media company, Sony, announced that they will be releasing a movie about emojis in August 2017. We know that Hollywood will make a movie out of anything, but emojis? Are these little symbols such a large part of our daily life and online culture that they justify a full-blown movie?
Not too long ago, when online chatting and SMS’s caught on, people expressed their emotions with basic symbols made up of punctuation marks, for example :) :( or :P. These were called emoticons and according to the Mental Floss they first appeared in a magazine in 1881.
Emojis, on the other hand, were created around 1998 by Shigetaka Kurita, a Japanese economics student who worked for a cellphone operator. The word “emoji” comes from Japan and doesn’t have a connection with the “emotions”. The “e” translates to “image” and “moji” to “character”.
However, these symbols didn’t look the same on all platforms and devices they were used. In 2007 Google adopted emojis and because they had the same code points, they always displayed the same, whichever device or platform you used.
From 2010 onwards, some emoji character sets have been incorporated into Unicode, a standard system for indexing characters, which has allowed them to be used outside Japan and to be standardized across different operating systems. A company called Unicode Consortium is now responsible for regulating emojis and approving new ones.
The Oxford Dictionary named 😂 (Face With Tears of Joy) its 2015 Word of the year. It also noted that 2015 has seen a sizable increase in the use of the word “emoji” and recognized its impact on popular culture.
Around six billion emojis are sent on mobile messaging apps every day, according to Digiday, a media company that specializes in digital media. (http://www.cbc.ca) So if you’re still wondering how relevant emojis are in online culture, that should be a good indication.
Are you looking for some more emojis to use? Try www.iemoji.com or www.getemoji.com.
[SOURCES: www.wikipedia.org, www.nerdist.com]
[:af]
Mediamaatskappy Sony, het verlede week aangekondig dat hulle in Augustus, 2017, ʼn fliek oor emojis, gaan vrystel. Ons weet teen die tyd dat Hollywood enige verskoning sal gebruik om ʼn fliek te maak, maar emojis? Is hierdie klein simbooltjies so ʼn groot deel van ons lewens en die aanlyn-kultuur dat dit ʼn behoorlike fliek verdien?
Nie te lank gelede nie, toe aanlyn kletskamers en smse posgevat het, het mense hul emosies uitgedruk met basiese simbole wat bestaan het uit leestekens, byvoorbeeld :) :( of :P. Hierdie tekens is emotikons genoem en volgens Mental Floss het hulle die eerste keer reeds in 1881 in ʼn tydskrif verskyn.
Emojis is in 1998 deur Shigetaka Kurita, ʼn Japanese ekonomie-student wat vir ʼn selfoonmaatskappy gewerk het, geskep. Die woord “emoji” het niks met “emotikons” te doen nie. Die “e” beteken “beeld” en “moji” kan vertaal word as “karakter”.
Aan die begin het hierdie simbole ongelukkig nie dieselfde gelyk op alle platforms en toestelle nie. In 2007 het Google emojis begin ondersteun en omdat dit dieselfde kodepunte gehad het, het dit oral dieselfde gelyk, op watter platform of toestel jy dit ook al gebruik het.
Vanaf 2010 is sommige emoji karakterstelle ingelyf by Unicode, ʼn standaard-stelsel wat gebruik word om karakters te indekseer. Gevolglik was dit moontlik om die karakters buite Japan te kan gebruik en te standaardiseer sodat dit oor verskeie bedryfstelsels gebruik kan word. ʼn Maatskappy met die naam Unicode Consortium is tans verantwoordelik vir die regulasie van emojis en vir die goedkeuring van nuwes.
In 2015 het die Oxford Dictionary 😂 as Woord-van-die-jaar aangewys. Dit het ook daarop gewys dat daar ʼn redelike toename in die gebruik van die woord “emoji” was en die impak daarvan op populêre kultuur benadruk.
Volgens Digiday, ʼn maatskappy wat spesialiseer in digitale media, word daagliks ongeveer ses biljoen emojis word op boodskap-toepassings gestuur. (http://www.cbc.ca) As jy nogsteeds wonder of emojis relevant is in aanlynkultuur, behoort dit ʼn goeie aanduiding te wees.
Soek jy nog emojis om te gebruik? Probeer www.iemoji.com of www.getemoji.com.
[BRONNE: www.wikipedia.org, www.nerdist.com]
