翻译 Oct.17 · 2022

The 40-year evolution from 😃 to 😂

从"😃"到"😂"的40年的进化

At 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman made Internet history by stitching together a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis ("😃").

在1982年9月19日的上午11:44，SF通过拼接一个冒号，一个连字符和一个结尾括号创造了互联网的历史。

stitching：拼接、缝合、缝制

stitching together：缝合在一起

colon：冒号

hyphen：连字符

parenthesis：括号

With that smiley face, Fahlman attempted to solve a familiar problem to today's internet users: conveying sarcasm online.

有了那样的微笑的脸，F开始尝试去解决一个今天的互联网用户熟悉的问题：在网上表达讽刺。

The evolution from 😃 to 😂

从:-)到😂的进化

Apple added an official emoji keyboard available outside Japan in 2011, a milestone that emoji experts credit as the true entrance of the characters into the American online lexicon.

在2011年，苹果在除了日本以外的地方添加了一个官方的emoji键盘（系统服务），表情专家认为，这是这些符号进入美国在线词典这一真正的入口的一大里程碑。

emoji keyboard：表情符号键盘

credit：认为…有、存入余额、计入贷

entrance：入口、大门（口）、通道

character：字符、特点、特征

lexicon：词典

By 2015, the face with tears of joy emoji 😂 was named the Oxford Dictionary's word of the year. This emoji remains the favorite among US users, according to an Adobe study.

在2015年，一张脸上带着眼泪和高兴的表情符号为了被评为当年牛津词典的年度词汇。根据Adobe的研究表明，这个表情符号仍然是美国用户的最爱。

The future of emoji

emoji表情的未来

Just as language evolves, so too have emoji.

正如语言的发展，表情符号也在发展

Unicode puts out emoji set updates each September after sifting through submitted proposals and responding to global trends.

Unicode在筛选提交的提案并响应全球趋势后，每年9月发布表情集更新。

sifting：筛，细查；评审

submitted：提交

proposals：提议、建议

补充下Unicode的知识点，文章在这里转折的特别突然，我也搞不懂为啥。由于emoji诞生的很早，且特殊的符号化出身，直接被收录进Unicode了。也就是表情符号如“😁”并不是一个图片，而是真真正正的文字符号（位于操作系统底层的字符集中）。想更具体的了解的话可以点这里跳转 (opens new window)

But Unicode has also faced criticism over the years for its lack of race, gender, sexuality and disability representation in earlier emoji sets, leading to the release of five skin tone options in 2015 and two gender options for professions in 2016. Accessibility emojis were added in 2019.

但是Unicode也在这些年面领过一些危机，如在早期的表情符号集中缺少种族，性别，性特征和残疾特征的表现，这促使了在2015年，发布了五种肤色的选项；2016年，发布了两种对于不同职业人员性别的选项。无障碍表情符号则在2019年发布。

sexuality：性特征

emoji sets：表情符号集

Accessibility emojis：无障碍表情

While there are now thousands of emoji options, the main usage remains loyal to the original goal 40 years ago of adding a smile and some levity.

虽然现在有数千个表情符号的选项，但它的主要用法仍然忠实于40年前的最初目标，即增加微笑和轻浮

levity：轻浮

remain：仍然是（常见用法

loyal：v.忠诚

As for Fahlman, he uses emojis "very, very rarely." Mostly, he said, "I prefer the little text ones, partly because they're my babies.

至于F（创始人），他用表情符号“非常非常少。”更多的时候，他说：“我更倾向于少文本的表情符号，部分原因是因为那是我的孩子（他创造的）”

rarely：极少地

prefer：倾向于、偏爱于

partly：部分的…（原因、因素等)

生肉 Oct.17 · 2022

The 40-year evolution from 😃 to 😂

At 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman made Internet history by stitching together a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis ("😃").

With that smiley face, Fahlman attempted to solve a familiar problem to today's internet users: conveying sarcasm online.

The evolution from 😃 to 😂

Apple added an official emoji keyboard available outside Japan in 2011, a milestone that emoji experts credit as the true entrance of the characters into the American online lexicon. By 2015, the face with tears of joy emoji 😂 was named the Oxford Dictionary's word of the year. This emoji remains the favorite among US users, according to an Adobe study.

The future of emoji

Just as language evolves, so too have emoji.

Unicode puts out emoji set updates each September after sifting through submitted proposals and responding to global trends.

But Unicode has also faced criticism over the years for its lack of race, gender, sexuality and disability representation in earlier emoji sets, leading to the release of five skin tone options in 2015 and two gender options for professions in 2016. Accessibility emojis were added in 2019.

While there are now thousands of emoji options, the main usage remains loyal to the original goal 40 years ago of adding a smile and some levity.

As for Fahlman, he uses emojis "very, very rarely." Mostly, he said, "I prefer the little text ones, partly because they're my babies.