Re: this is less!
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Gene
It's just another sign of the growing decline of
literary culture and respect for language. Visual representation and
communication is significantly encroaching on verbal communication and
media. The results are, and will be widespread and are far from fully
known but the change is occurring with far too little reflection.
This change, much more visual media, movies for
one, increasingly replacing books, has very serious implications for logical
thought and linear thinking. As a very apt quote, I don't know its
origin, has it, "We shape our tools and then our tools shape
us."
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Vogel
call me an old curmudgeon if you like but we were given languages and yet they prefer to use pictures.Maybe it's "a Brian thing," but this Brian is right there with you. I have hated emoji's ever since their debut. I resisted the use of text emoticons, too, except in very rare cases where it would be difficult to assess "tone" accurately strictly in writing. I would not shed a single tear were emojis to land on the cyber scrap heap. -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
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