No offence intended ?

Those who make up the nonsensical meanings of the emojs totally misconstrueing the pictorial design are showing how stupid they are. If they saw a picture showing a plate with say meat, potatoes and veg would they construe that not to be food but excrement; a glass of beer as being urine or perhaps an addiction substance. Ignore the idiots and continue using emojs as they had been intended.

I have to say that one of the most irritating things for me is bad grammar and spelling. What!! No full stops?? When I text,it’s the same as writing a letter,and I ask my GC to do the same, which they do.

I am becoming firmly convinced that there is a movement to undermine every word we utter, every thought in our heads, every move we make, until we are all standing, petrified, unable to function. I am utterly sick of reading silly news about cancelling, hurt feelings, perceived insults, apologies being made by grovelling authors for perfectly reasonable text in their books - it is just too much, and I do wonder who generates this absolute nonsense, who encourages it - and why.

I shall continue to use correct grammar and punctuation in my messages, and if anyone doesn’t like it, or the emojis I use....too bad! I can’t keep up with the constant changes, especially all the politically correct rubbish. I see people being criticised in the press, or social media, for saying something that seems perfectly innocuous to me. The world is going mad!
I WAS amused, though, by the story of someone seeing their parent typing an email sending sympathy about someone who had died, and ending the message with LOL. On expressing their horror, it turned out that they thought that it stood for ‘lots of love!’

I use proper punctuation, full stops included and can't stand emojis so never use them so I'm only half PA.

Thank you Elegran. I would never have worked that one out!

Being of an innocent nature, I had no idea why anyone would be offended by an aubergine emoji or actually under what circumstances one might use it. I looked it up on Google ……the youth of today .

Perfect grammar and punctuation are a silent, social marker and it is a sign of how the middle class code is being diluted that new social groups are becoming, let us say tactfully, ‘democratised’, if they are arguing that inaccuracy of expression is to be preferred over a command of the language.

My adult children speak and write accurate Standard English as they were taught to do.

Frankly I do not care if someone misunderstands my emojis - I am not here to pander to the younger generation, if they are so tone deaf then....

What is it with ‘not allowed’ or ‘offensive’ these? days. I’m sick of being told ‘you can’t say that any more’, or ‘that isn’t acceptable now’.