Within Damon Darlin's America Needs Its Own Emojis his point of emojis not catering to American ways and phrases is absolutely ridiculous. Expecting another culture/society to change the basis of their product when it is so mass marketed is too much of an unnecessary change and the company should not be expected to make it. Completely redefining something to fit another place specifically makes no sense. Darlin's argument that emojis should cater to American ways is an idiotic notion. Emojis are relevant to the culture they come from and cannot fit every single phrase, idiom, or saying from every other culture around the world (including American) onto a tiny keyboard because some man thinks it should be so. This essay will support this argument
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So, the lack of certain ones is not as big a deal as Darlin makes it out to be. This quote again, “The face mask emoji works in Japan, where regular people wear them in public. In America your boss might think you quit to go to med school or started robbing banks”, exemplifies how Darlin is reaching to have any sort of validity. If you are going to be speaking with your boss it is doubtful that you would be speaking in such informality that you would use emojis unless you were particularly close. You would type out that you were ill – using texting only if you were too unwell to actually call in. Another instance where the use of emojis is not even necessary, “There is also no broken-down car, also useful for excuses”. If you are making an excuse of a broken down car it can be typed out. People do not use emojis for every little thing, and in fact using too many is generally overdoing it. As a last resort Darlin points out that, “Food is a particular problem. There is no steak, no burritos, no bacon and no kale”. Again, this draws back to the fact that people do not speak in just emojis. It is not necessary to have all these emojis. Darlin is grasping out to latch onto anything he thinks will support his weak argument and this only further proves it. Even going so far as to say, “There is just too much I can’t express because the symbols don’t exist”. His statement that he cannot correctly express himself due to what he deems a lack of emojis only makes him sound childish, as if he can only use emojis to speak and the lack of them are hindering his ability to communicate. We have words for a reason, we can use them to properly express
So, the lack of certain ones is not as big a deal as Darlin makes it out to be. This quote again, “The face mask emoji works in Japan, where regular people wear them in public. In America your boss might think you quit to go to med school or started robbing banks”, exemplifies how Darlin is reaching to have any sort of validity. If you are going to be speaking with your boss it is doubtful that you would be speaking in such informality that you would use emojis unless you were particularly close. You would type out that you were ill – using texting only if you were too unwell to actually call in. Another instance where the use of emojis is not even necessary, “There is also no broken-down car, also useful for excuses”. If you are making an excuse of a broken down car it can be typed out. People do not use emojis for every little thing, and in fact using too many is generally overdoing it. As a last resort Darlin points out that, “Food is a particular problem. There is no steak, no burritos, no bacon and no kale”. Again, this draws back to the fact that people do not speak in just emojis. It is not necessary to have all these emojis. Darlin is grasping out to latch onto anything he thinks will support his weak argument and this only further proves it. Even going so far as to say, “There is just too much I can’t express because the symbols don’t exist”. His statement that he cannot correctly express himself due to what he deems a lack of emojis only makes him sound childish, as if he can only use emojis to speak and the lack of them are hindering his ability to communicate. We have words for a reason, we can use them to properly express