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Flip phone emoticons Anonymous 05/18/19 (Sat) 03:04:28 No.10645

Ok, VERY specific question and I know it's not exactly a recommendation but I figured this board would be better to post this on than /r/: I'm writing something that takes place sometime around 2010 or so where two Japanese people are texting each other and would like to know what kinds of special characters are/were Japanese flip phones from roughly that time period able to make simply with the options of the keyboards or other programs in the phone without having to copy and paste them from the Internet, specifically characters that make up emoticons? In other words, what can be done just from the keyboard or from within the phone itself? Of course, I know that really anyone anywhere nowadays and even back then can/could do :), :( and the like but there are some more complicated ones I was hoping to throw in for some flair and to spice things up a bit so the conversation doesn't seem repetitive and the same emoticons aren't constantly being used. For example, I'm almost positive that something like the Lenny face would be nearly impossible to do without having to go on the web to copy it from there since I don't imagine the eyes, nose and mouth portion in between the "cheeks" (parentheses, obviously) are readily available to use on the keyboard. Or even better, if there are certain messenger apps/features that came with phones from back then that were capable of more than the regular texting functions, that's fine too. Been using this as a resource to go off of and have been going through the Eastern section in particular for help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons. I know I'm autistic as hell but I just want as few anachronisms in the story as possible.

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Anonymous 05/18/19 (Sat) 13:07:43 No.10646

>>10645

I'm pretty sure they could write all kaomojis on flip phones. In Japan they've been using flip phones even beyond 2010, and I've certainly seen a lot of anime/VN characters sending text messages with complicated kaomoji.

From some googling I found that nip dumbphones have had rich text support for far longer than western ones, and it was typical to have menus with various emojis integrated into dumbphone OSes, by the same logic I'm sure they made the symbols used in kaomoji easily accessible also.

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Anonymous 05/19/19 (Sun) 02:00:02 No.10647

>>10646

>I'm pretty sure they could write all kaomojis on flip phones

That's very surprising, I haven't used a flip phone in years but from what I remember of mine back then, it could probably only do like 10% of what a typical Jap phone could based on what you're describing

>From some googling I found that nip dumbphones have had rich text support for far longer than western ones, and it was typical to have menus with various emojis integrated into dumbphone OSes, by the same logic I'm sure they made the symbols used in kaomoji easily accessible also

Never would've even guessed that, very good to know. Would you mind sharing the links that you found this info from? Not that I don't believe you or anything but I'd just like to read it/them for myself to get a better understanding of the tech. I suppose I could do it myself but I really have no idea what to look for since I know next to nothing about any of this.

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Anonymous 05/20/19 (Mon) 19:10:40 No.10651

>>10647

I just googled "kaomoji flip phone" and went through some pages. I couldn't find the same source again, but for example, this article talks about it https://www.tofugu.com/japan/emoji/ and again implies that kaomoji usage on flip phones was a thing for a long time.

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Anonymous 05/21/19 (Tue) 00:54:30 No.10654

>>10651

Ok, well that's fine, I'm sure I can find it on my own. Thank you VERY much for the detailed response(s) anon, I really wasn't expecting anyone to reply to this thread, much less someone actually knowledgeable on this subject, but you completely surprised me in the best way. I'll be sure to put all this info to good use. :)

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Anonymous 06/24/19 (Mon) 10:10:32 No.10695

Like the other Anon said, nips have better support for kaomoji since writing in Japanese forces you to come up with some clever input methods anyway.

If you want a list of them, there's sites like http://www.facemark.jp/f-egao.htm. You can google 顔文字 and you'll find others like it, and you can use your judgement for what might or might not be common. Very contextual and specific ones with lots of characters like ヾ(-_-;) ｵｲｵｲ… probably don't get used as much as something like ( °Д°#) , unless it's the character's personality that he uses a lot of kaomoji.

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