Emojis. A primer, a quiz, a question

Yeah, my wife had no idea that this was supposed to represent an engine.

Hah! My ex-wife drove her relatively new Toyota Corolla down a friend’s messed up driveway, ripping off her oil pan.

She drove the car until it would go no more. She got a ride home and told me where her car was sitting. She said it needed water. She knew that because of the red watering can that lit up on her dash.

In all fairness, that engine icon looks like an engine from 50 years ago. When was the last time your car had an engine with a belt-driven fan out front and a big round air cleaner on top?

I don’t use a lot of emojis. There does not seem to be a common one for “engine” to assess progress.

:thinking::man_shrugging::face_with_diagonal_mouth::dizzy:

(What’s the deal with the last emoji? How can this mean confusion?)

In the UK there’s a road sign for traffic or speed cameras that looks like:

https://www.pinclipart.com/picdir/big/44-442530_cctv-clipart-traffic-camera-uk-speed-camera-sign.png

which seems rather funny. When was the last time anyone saw a camera with a bellows like that?
Actually, I think my father might have had one when I was a very small child…?

We use plenty of symbols that depict objects of varying degrees of obsolescence:

  • Telephone handset
  • Floppy disc
  • TV with rabbit ears
  • Magnifying glass
  • Movie film frame
  • Boom box
  • Lozenge-shaped microphone

There’s also the fact that, like most people, I never see car engines except in their position underneath the hood (and even that only relatively rarely), and I don’t really register them as discrete entities separate from everything else that’s under the hood. So, if I didn’t already know what it represented, I’d have no clue what that was supposed to be a picture of.

I got nothing but an ad to subscribe.

Yeah, I was told by someone a lot more “hip” than I am (which is about 90% of the population, just sayin) that “OK” is rude, and so is “k”. Either use Okay or “kk”.

Because it’s not an emoji. It’s a dashboard warning light. My 16 year old called it an emoji.

I have done more driving in my time than most people. I’m not confused about the engine. I looked up emojis for “confusion” and got…

:thinking::man_shrugging::face_with_diagonal_mouth::dizzy:

…and didn’t understand :dizzy:

dizzy, apparently

I would have no clue what that was supposed to mean. My guess would have been “The more you know…”

Seriously. Now I know the more you know people are confused too.

I guess I can see that, like a cartoon character with stars circling their head. But I wouldn’t have gotten that just by looking at it.