emoji use on TUSCL.

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Emojis are for teenage girls.

Grown men use words.

A statement like that seems to be the online version of telling the kids to get off your lawn. 🖕

^ Maybe it is. Cope.

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Cope with what? You being a social retard

Are they still teaching English in the schools?m

The short answer is “no”.

The teacher shortage is the US has reached a catastrophic stage. Shockingly, there is no national database that tracks the shortage of teachers, but, for example, Houston began the school year with at least 1000 teacher openings. By some estimations, there are 600,000 less teachers than pre-COVID

As a result, many “less than qualified” twigged are being hired in our school systems. Students, who years ago probably had zero qualifications to attend college, are enrolling with the help of student loans and Pell Grants. Some of these are now teaching in the US public school system

Now, we have high school math students who rank 31 out of 35 developed countries. Our country reads at a 7-8th grade reading level. But, hey, they know CRT

"Cope with what? You being a social retard"

Did I strike a nerve, pimpy?

I'd like to present a story:

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^Blah cut off a PL's dick using 3 knives and enjoyed her worth until she noticed that she slightly cut her finger. While she was crying over her cut, another PL doctore

Doctored her wound and she kissed him.

I hate typing on my tablet sometimes. Premature post

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"Emojis are for teenage girls."

Yes, that's a teenage girl thing. I was in a grocery store tonight and saw a teenage girl sniffing some scented soap. When she saw me looking at her sniffing the soap, she gave me an embarrassed smile and quickly put the soap back on the shelf. Sniffing scented soap in the grocery store is a teenage girl thing. I don't ever see any guys doing that.

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I don't use them, but it doesn't bother me if others do.

"Are they still teaching English in the schools?"

Yes. What I have found, though, is that if a young student goes down a STEM track, then they are allowed (and sometimes encouraged) to ignore basic writing and communication skills. And they can get away with that until they exit school, enter their first job, and have write reports or articles about their work to justify their employment.

I have encountered many young engineers/scientists who are incredibly smart, but their attempts to put their thoughts on "paper" are incoherent. They also sometimes use text-message abbreviations, etc., when emailing project leaders or department heads. It's not a good look.

But, back on topic, I don't care if people use emojis.

We have always used acronyms/abbreviations in communications – in many ways emojis are just a graphical equivalent and as the saying goes a picture is worth a 1000 words – the use of emojis is just an evolution of mobile-communications and the wide adoption of smartphones; it fits the current communication-technology of today.

I would assume that younger-people, as well as women, are likely heavier users of emojis – as a middle-aged-guy I tend to use them sparingly but I don’t necessarily think there’s anything wrong w/ using them; as I mentioned it’s kinda a good fit w/ the current communication technology.

"... Are they still teaching English in the schools ..."

Apparently there are more important things to teach these days like proper use of pronouns; teaching how this country sucks and needs to be dismantled; teaching about the 100s of different genders; and teaching kids how to be activists.