• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
    301·
    3 天前

    Anyone else find that praying hands emoji very condescending when used like that? I would destroy the backend DB if they tried to send me that!

    • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
      3·
      2 天前

      I think it’s Indian English. Wild guess from the sentence structure, vocabulary used and the selected colour of the hands emoji.

      • Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz
        13·
        3 天前

        What’s wrong with that? It’s a common gesture for thanks in many places irl… that’s the first thing i think when I see that emoji, and I’m from a western culture…

          • merc@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            2 天前

            You can also type “thanks” or “please”. Both of those show the hands together emoji.

            • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
              13·
              2 天前

              they do now because people are using it incorrectly.

              not once in my life have I groveled a “thank you” and I don’t intend to start via text.

                • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  22 小时前

                  I don’t use eggplant as a euphemism for penis. I just say penis.

                  I don’t grovel like a simp. I say thank you and please like an adult, because I am an adult.

                  • merc@sh.itjust.works
                    1·
                    18 小时前

                    You sound like a child who is so desperate to sound like an adult that they obsess over meaningless things like using the correct emojis.

                • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  2 天前

                  considering I’m not in south asia, and don’t interact with anyone from south asia it’s not something that I have come across, like ever.

                  use it all you want though, I’ll just always remember the douche bag that used it 500 times a day and associate anyone that uses it like them to the douche bag.

                  thanks 🤲

                  • piccolo@sh.itjust.works
                    2·
                    1 天前

                    Or you know… they practice yoga…

                    Also when i think “prayer hands”. I think of this one 🙏 not this 🤲. That one doesnt appear when you search “thanks”. And i think it would be a little strange to use. Perhaps if the tone is showing ‘humility’?

              • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 天前

                Emoji aren’t strictly prescriptive with their meaning. They are generic symbols that can have many meanings in different contexts and cultures.

                The name of an emoji is more a suggestion than anything else.