Horror! A Skype emoticon is misnamed and nobody cares! 4u5938

Published on 24/09/2018

At a time when the slightest word is analyzed, dissected, sociologized, decontextualized and recontextualized, and above all criticized, especially on Twitter, where the slightest faux pas makes it possible to devote the most virtuous of social justice defenders to gemonies, it is advisable to turn your tongue 7 times in your mouth and have your posts reviewed by a legal team, under penalty of being delivered as food to professionals of indignation. Yet, for months, what am I saying, years, a scandal of telluric proportions has been hiding in our software and no one has been talking about it. WHY?

Skype misnamed an emoticon. There you go. 4f4o3d

We see him every day or almost without paying attention, we pretend to ignore his presence when he gets agitated and we are in a hurry to make him sleep to have peace… And I’m not talking about your child but about Skype, this communication software that belongs to the panoply of the perfect office employee when Slack is not there. Well, you can imagine that this one has been home for a very long time to a HUGE blunder that would make Bernard Pivot himself feel embarrassed, which we are going to ask for for our campaign to immediately rename this syntactic blunder.

Hide your eyes if your soul is sensitive, open them if you like thrills and go your way if you fight your way with a revolving door.

And above all, behave yourself: The “Mouth-Bearing” emoticon:

Exhibit A

Is represented by a FIRED MOUTH emoticon! HORROR! SACRILEGE!
Thousands of overqualified engineers, months of design, a satisfying production environment with drink dispensers and mouse pads abound, all this to confuse the “Mouth-to-Body” emoji with the “Neutral Face” emoji. What the hell is this job? HEIN?

It’s not going to happen like that!

I call for the immediate correction of this infamy. And you too, I ask you to do the same: Take your usual communication device, connect it to the nearest Internet and always leave to Microsoft that you want the emoji “Mouth-Blaze”, which we remind you marks a surprise, like this:

Be duly renamed “neutral face”, i.e. a completely inexpressive face, like this:

Or not, you certainly have something else to do. It’s up to you.