German humour is no laughing matter.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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Honestly, we should be adapting more non English letters into our emoticons. Ü and ö are great examples, but :þ or :Þ looks way more like a tongue sticking out than :p does (though, I said non English, and þorn is, technically, an English letter...
Ÿ could be something... I'm not sure what, but something. Potentially pornographic...
ẞ or ß could be some kind of sideways boobs... Maybe an ass?
ð could be eyes if doubled ð.ð sunglasses: ð-ð
Ð could be gap-toothed smiley. =Ð nerd smiley: 8Ð
There are others, but I only have English, Esperanto, and Icelandic installed right now.
Esperanto has letters with little hats. Ĵ makes a nice little umbrella.
That only explains half of the question...
in all seriousness, it’s likely because the origin of the emoticon is tied in with the ASCII character set, and the codes available when the emoticon was conceived. emoticons were around for decades, before we started using them on phones.
in fact, “smilies” are indeed not German!!!
Eh, I feel like we would've adopted our own style by now. For example, this face ^^ was fairly popular in the German internet before mobile phones and emojis took over, because it's just two key presses on the German keyboard.
I think, the main problem is simply that umlauts look like letters to us. If someone types a random Ü or Ö after their sentence, you might think they meant to write another sentence. Or you simply do not register that it's supposed to resemble a face, because it's just a letter in your mind. Much like you presumably don't either look at an E and think that it looks like a rake, because the association with the letter is much stronger.
Ö
Ü
yiiiiiip yip yip yip yip uh-huh uh-huh
That's the sound I make when someone said something extremely possessed or stole my sandwich
The real answer is that using a non-standardized Strichgesicht is against the rules.
DIN 5008
Huh. Using them from now on Ü
I was a new grad student at a gathering organized to introduce us to the department, and I was drinking a hard lemonade. The department head walked up to me and said, with a strong German accent:
In Germany, zat would be illegal.
I thought she was just giving me a hard time about drinking the lemonade rather than a real beer, but then I looked it up and the lemonade would in fact have been illegal in Germany. (Or rather it would have been illegal when she was growing up there. It was legalized since then.)
SMH she's never been on feddit.org/c/ich_iel.
!ich_[email protected]
I suggest the above format over links.
Why is it preferable?
Formatting it like they did allows people to click through while staying on their home instance.
Clickability.
Weird, the one I typed is clickable, too. Is that just a quirk of the standard web interface that my server is using? Though I see that it also changes the link so you're still using your own instance when you're visiting the link, which would be enough to make it preferable.
It allows other instances to click your link without leaving their instance.
yes that is weird. Voyager vs lemmy-web feature set apparently
Germans enjoy humour, but smiling isn’t as efficient as laughing on the inside.
I CAN'T LITERALLY PICTURE ANY FACES LET ALONE ONES I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. ALSO, WHY ARE WE YELLING?!
I DONT KNOW, BUT IM GOING TO CONTINUE TO YELL BCZ NOW ITS FUN.
:|
~~' '~~
ï
That's just an upside down dick though
With the power of unicode you can add eyes to any letter:
ẅ s̈ M̈ _̈
=̈ ~̈ ×̈ +̈