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There’s an entire code block for hieroglyphs in Unicode. https://symbl.cc/en/unicode/blocks/egyptian-hieroglyphs/
Amusingly penis features in a few of them. https://symbl.cc/en/130B8/
Specifically in the "D parts of the human body" section?! Is there a "V parts..." section as well?
Not that I’m aware of only ‘penis’, ‘penis with emission’, and ‘penis with folded cloth’.
This link has the descriptions https://unicode-explorer.com/c/130B9
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And here an anime titi 𓂒
Anyway, D its for the section, not everything are Ds
Well that's cool as hell!
So that's where that penis comes from
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Ah god damnit
Of course this isn’t comparable - hieroglyphs form complete languages and are not just a set of emotion symbols. Probably there’s one or two that are emotions but I somehow doubt that the stone writings that endure contain any personal expressions of emotion.
But the post is funny and it hints at something important. Expressions to co vey emotion are incredibly important to human beings. It’s a language that our bodies are physically built for: our faces are far more changeable and expressive than other animals, and this supported the social bonds and cooperation that put us on top of the world. I’m not saying that across all cultures, one given facial expression means the same thing, but certainly all cultures have a vivid, silent language of facial expressions that is so deeply rooted, we barely think about it.
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hieroglyphs form complete languages and are not just a set of emotion symbols. Probably there’s one or two that are emotions but I somehow doubt that the stone writings that endure contain any personal expressions of emotion.
Emoji don't only depict emotions...
i mean most emojis aren't emotions, they're just.. things..
what emotion does a bus have? the joy of not having to sit in traffic?
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Meanwhile in China they never stopped using hieroglyphics (cries while loading up more 中文 Duolingo and Lingodeer)
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Eyebirdwavesun?
How dare you call me that.
I refuse to use emojis, you can't make me! 😤
I still use emoticons.
Back?! lol Homie, it never really stopped. Modern humanity’s about 300,000 years old and we’ve been using various forms of cuneiform and hyroglyphics since waaaaay before even Akkadian was a thing lol
To answer your question on matching emojis, no, it is way more complex than that. For example check the use cases of this one - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill-country_(hieroglyph)
This is amazing. I never knew that Egyptian hieroglyphs had names for kingdoms in the Indian subcontinent.
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fuckin woke Egyptians were influenced by them aliens making the pyramids 🫃
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Eye of Horus. Was one of my fave high school doodles.
Hieroglyphs are actually not that simple, my ex gf was an Egyptologist, I went to quite a few lectures with her, that was a highly complex language, more akin to Japanese Kanji, with deep layered subtexts. Those desert dudes were crazy. If you have ever have a chance to visit a lecture about hieroglyphs, do it, it'll blow your mind. Or how they calculated time, or even saw it, culturally and individually, wow. They were so unbelievably far ahead, I sometimes compare them to the octopus of human development, they should rule the world, but there was that one thing, that prevented it. (For the analogy: the octopus dies when their kids are hatching, would they have the ability to pass their knowledge along to them, today eight armed space suits would be en Vogue)
It’s incredibly easy to fall into the trap of seeing modern societies as more advanced. There’s no reason to think they weren’t just as intelligent and resourceful as we are today. They just lived a long time ago. If history can teach us one thing, it’s that nobody rules the world forever, as advanced a civilization can be.
It's not that simple, cuneiform and hyeroglyphs had been accompanied by sophisticated systems representing phonemes and grammar elements of the languages it was being written with. People make the same mistakes regarding chinese characters (older scripts or more "primitive" scripts equated to simple drawings and nothing else). 🤷