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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!
I think it's Indian English. Wild guess from the sentence structure, vocabulary used and the selected colour of the hands emoji.
I worked with someone who used them as "thank you".
it was....a challenge.
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...
In my culture it means go fuck yourself.
... what culture is that?
I think pray, because that's what you have to type to use it.
You can also type "thanks" or "please". Both of those show the hands together emoji.
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.
Are people also using eggplants improperly? And, you're proud to never have said thank you?
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.
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.
🤡 🖕
this means I'm sorry if it is clear enough.
I shall inform south asian people that they are using their hands wrong.
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 🤲
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'?
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.
It's the first emoji that comes to if I type tha...
So I use it like that
They beg you like they beg god for something for free.
Namaste🙏
I just imagined it's like a buddhist "peace be with you" kind of thing