There was a time when parents, teachers and generally adults
of the 60s kept preaching to youngsters about the dangers of illiteracy in the
modern age. Their protest was that due to the culture of texting with
abbreviations, eventually good writing would become a thing of the past. Still,
texting became more and more popular and social media has integrated itself so
completely in our daily activities that misplacing a phone, tablet or laptop is
cause for panic. Nowadays, it is not astounding to read a text message like,
"hey, u ther, u wana com ova. We cn watc movies and stuf yh?" It is
not just English that is butchered during texts, French, Kiswahili, Spanish and
more are all victims of lazyman texting as I like to call it. Now that, Viber,
Telegram, Whatsapp and other texting platform can work on laptop desktops, the sky
is the limit.
So, the long farewell to proper English texting has been
confirmed with the proposed release of an Emoji Keyboard. Technically, the emoji keyboard has not been
released yet, the group behind the keyboard, Disk Cactus, is looking to raise
$20,000 by April 9,2015. With the keyboard, no need for words, letters, just
hearts, dollar signs and all those other emoji people use.
Of course the keyboard will allow you to switch between your
regular keyboard to the emoji one, because you can't quote Shakespeare in just
emoji. To switch, you will just push caps lock and back to letters. The keyboard
will have over 150 emoji, giving one enough emoji to express themselves
appropriately.
The keyboard is not actually a hardware, but a cover but
only for Mac keyboards. So, this is another reason to purchase the very
expensive Macbook. So all you need is to pledge $10 or more and then you will
get the keyboard cover and the software that comes along with it.
I dread to think what would happen if this cover actually
gained popularity here in Kenya.
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