Creating an Emoji Language

[@thinkfact]

I don't like to eat limes while I stare directly into the sun.

[@conjecturemm]

But whenever you're not staring into the sun it should be fine

[@miguelito6031]

Think Fact Huge fan of yours man! :^)

[@miriamrosemary9110]

Contrary to the unpopular belief, highly discreet laser beams compel polka dot beetles to tell the best theme park jokes since their zebra handy bags tap-dance within the ultra-utopian realm of quantum mechanics in infinitely continuous performances of flowery paper guitars.

[@miriamrosemary9110]

How's that? Crazy sentences are fun!!

[@conjecturemm]

This is beautiful hahaha

[@AlternateHistoryHub]

Great video Matt! I know how much effort you put into it.

[@conjecturemm]

Thanks dude :) Yeah normal upload schedule again, hopefully haha

[@Soliloquy084]

The Egyptian hieroglyphics are similar to an Emoji language, so we've had something like this before, and actually Chinese is also based on logograms, the classic example you see everywhere is big 大 is a man (人) with outstretched arms. The writing system is actually used across several languages so even though people might say big differently they can still communicate in writing.

[@conjecturemm]

Jabril's video mentioned heiroglyphs, too! And that was the hope of a writing-only language called blissymbolics, that even if there is no spoken counterpart people should still be able to communicate cross-culturally through text.

[@Rolando_Cueva]

Kind of. The basic Chinese characters are logograms, but the most complex characters use a combination of a phonetic component and a meaning component.

[@neighl13]

Once upon an axolotl, the tap-dancing linguistics professor stressed the negligence of the ever-expanding and egregious Oktoberfest culture in the deep center of Middle-Earth!

[@conjecturemm]

sounds about right

[@andersonkurk]

I have a secret pony horde in my big red chest; they smell like donuts, and eat the panini I feed them.

[@thomasarnett9986]

You made a language out of emojis (admittedly with some help from people you've never met), constructed an open lexicon for the public to use and add to, and organized everything in a neat and tidy video. And you only have 1,880 views. Someone get this guy an advertising campaign, because you TOTALLY deserve more recognition.

[@conjecturemm]

aw :)

[@essexmendoza708]

directly after my mother murdered 17 Icelandic soldiers, she put on a hat made of peanut butter and waved her crochet woven wand in a triangular motion, opening a portal to a distant world inhabited by angry, blue chickens, that would later infiltrate and forcefully occupy a 10 foot patch of land in Argentina.

[@openmoose]

The best part of having the neighbors for dinner is when you later annex their property they are unable to contest it, having taken up new residence in your digestive tract.

[@andrewniedziela]

Dmitry rolled his eyes and his window as he fell down with the window in an avalanche.

[@boltblast3262]

Donald Trump, president of Mexico, eats flabbergasted chairs.

[@snowfloofcathug]

boltblast president of the us... Somehow

[@freesci8863]

The shivering doesn't doubt the rule, nor does it ride the mighty dolphin

[@saber1epee0]

++

[@sunn7045]

+

[@sunn7045]

You know that some guy did make an entire emoji keyboard but it took him 16 keyboards and a whole lot of time

[@snowfloofcathug]

Sunny Cai Yea he showed that guy in the video even!

[@conjecturemm]

If you want to try a group where you can speak in nothing but emojis, let me know! goo.gl/forms/v3LTdp10hmVhJgvX2

[@BadWolfNeron]

"The coughing dragon really wanted to taste the south poland narwhal's flesh but alas discretion was not his friend"

[@conjecturemm]

Look, I'm alive!!!

[@KatyCunningham]

Conjecture ayyyyyeeeeee !!

[@conjecturemm]

[@conjecturemm]

For everyone who signed up for the emoji group communication, I've sent out e-mail linking to how you can join it! Man this would be easier with YT's community tab...

[@maxlucas9750]

What was the orange-haired President flying over when he put your astronaut-scissors in the chickenbroth?

[@himynameisnickolas]

I love that you spent so much time working on this language.

[@conjecturemm]

:)

[@hexdev]

The exquisite llama squeezed the leprechaun. I just made that up...

[@VanDeGraph]

I think your instruction to tell people to make completely new sentences is going to cause the comment section of this video to become a minefield because some people might end up trying to put a real sentence but people will assume it is an attempt to make a unique sentence. The previous sentence is both.

[@conjecturemm]

*plan is working*

[@FloydSquared]

Nice to see you're still uploading! I was wondering if you were still making videos and I'm always glad when you do

[@FloydSquared]

I just realized that you might interpret this as something no one would ever say.

[@conjecturemm]

Yeah! I got bogged down for a while/took a break, but I'm coming back :)

[@kwsapphire]

The blue raptor glued herself to her armored panda husband, so they'd never have to be apart.

[@zioscozio]

Dig that rhythm Genie, and listen to the voice of the dolphin!

[@Censeo]

English and Swedish will express the same thing for the first time here. The tophats from Greenland would like to play the ukulele. Cylinderhattarna från Grönland vill gärna spela ukulele

[@abdulmuhaimin9780]

my sentence: The pope of the german starship hailed a taxi to fly to Krypton

[@kargaroc386]

"Emoji" was a word used by Apple in their IOS software to describe what was up to that point just called emoticons, emotes, or smilies, whether they were text-based or not. Of course, because Apple used it, everyone started using it.

[@MarcelloSevero]

The strikingly oblivious alligator suddenly raced past a purple elephant on his way home.

[@tombenshalommoshe]

I made a new sentence that was never said before: I think the emoji movie is great

[@saadhorsepower8908]

Upon the fragrant moon made out of glass muffins, I began to vomit the upper halves of depressed pencils that were also constantly tickling my eyeballs.

[@tropicalr5]

Fourteen men once cycled from Italy to South Korea whilst performing Highland Cathedral on the tuba

[@miriamrosemary9110]

I like the emoji group chat idea! I hope it works out. Could have really interesting results after some time.

[@conjecturemm]

Hope you sign up!

[@miriamrosemary9110]

I have! ;)

[@miguelito6031]

I'm so glad that everyday there are more valuable and socially helpful content and audiences! What a great time to be alive

[@conjecturemm]

not sure if compliment or sentence that's never been said before

[@BadWolfNeron]

I really liked this video and i have been thinking of this specific topic bc i feel like emojis are the most universal understood communication form. Maybe after English as a language.

[@conjecturemm]

right? Jabril's video is good too for learning more about that

[@rubenssiomusic]

My sister is swiping the floor, while I'm watching Conjecture.

[@garret1930]

If Zomred and her chicken were to quit pinking every object in sight, I would eat a starling.

[@liamolaoghaire]

My new sentence: An Office worker with hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia enjoys long walks on the beach with his mute three-legged albino pet deer

[@halfnwhole751]

Also I wish that the verb conjugations can be written with emoji Also I saw in the conlang subreddit that some created an emoji language called emojitalk and its a language not a writing system

[@CamstonIsland]

Yet the Irish Elk stared off into the eternal dankness, and with it, became awfully confused by the onslaught of giga puddings

[@julia_ruby]

The nonbinary cantaloupe eats spaghetti for breakfast.

[@theozoic]

These are real data from my actual life: "The cat's on fire!". "The kitchen fell over!"

[@playdoughmaster808]

The emotional expression of capybaras have troubled linguists for centuries

[@louischo2701]

Aggravatingly harrowing experiences throughout the life of the turqoise-finned mutant dolphin were descriptively detailed in its renowned memoirs, in which there is a diagram of how hydraulic suspension works.

[@halfnwhole751]

4:40 I love KZbin rewind!

[@atruv2089]

A sentence that noone has ever said before? Ok, here ya go: "My car jumped over a table while trying to move away from the scary cat lady of the Tiger Empire."

[@sojourner_303]

As the title suggests, this phone may or may not shoot pill tablets out of the USB charging port when you open the camera application.

[@arongil]

Your brother had to buy some buffalo from the International Storehouse of Native African Animal Meats yesterday.

[@nurailidepaepe2783]

the old butterfly fell into the sun

[@jonassamuel4376]

*rubbing hands together* sooo, this has pretty great potential! A hurdle for the useability of this language would be obviously the interface, in theory one could type this language very fast, this could give it a nieche useage, we have to think about that. also internationality would be a huge plus (I know english exists but still! ) if you are interested i would contribute to this project, i had a few linguistics and communication courses in college Great video, i think i will dig into this idea a bit more in the next days :).

[@conjecturemm]

feel free to download it and modify/add to it. Or for something that probably has a better chance of becoming a language, sign up to become a part of the all-emoji communication group!

[@XiaosChannel]

A sentence that have never, ever, ever be written before.

[@conjecturemm]

nice

[@ethanjoseph2769]

The Hungarian wrestler was defenistrated after eating the emperor's pistachio ice cream.

[@conjecturemm]

yum

[@magic16136]

Wow. I don't know what to say. This is amazing. The video is so well made and the topic is incredibly interesting. I'm currently on day four of my attempt to learn Esperanto so this video comes at a very interesting time. I'm thinking maybe I should try to master Emojin in the next while as well. That way I'll have two artificial languages under my belt. Anyway, well done this video is awesome!

[@conjecturemm]

Haha thanks Lorenzo! Great hearing from you. How's esperanto going? Though I'd highly recommend *not* learning emojin as it is not that great or useful a writing system haha.

[@StepBackHistory]

So did you decide on shrimp or eggplant?

[@conjecturemm]

neither

[@user-sh6cb7sk6b]

I so strongly dislike that the bottlecap screams at me with an angry tongue.

[@AlinaLynn]

Oh yeah I've tried this before, but I only used emoji and not like the little modification thingies. It'll be interesting to check out what you decided on for the lexicon. Mine was kinda inconsistent but it was still fun. Honestly I think I'd also like to see what would happen if people were to just started talking only in emoji and see what system would evolve from that. If anyone wants to try that we should figure out a way.

[@conjecturemm]

sign up for the group I mentioned in the video! It's in the description

[@kirbyquartz5609]

I tried this as well without the little modification thingies, using 👈🕒 for past tense, since going left in time means going backwards, and ✍️ for I, since I wrote (or typed) this sentence. I also made pronunciations for the emojis loosely based off of English words, and came up with ways to quickly write them on paper with a speed similar to English.

[@ninokaah1591]

So when you take everything in to context, the overall suspension of a clearified system makes so that the moon man writes a sentence, which in theory says nothing at all

[@AdhesiveNarwhal]

Great video. Love your stuff.

[@conjecturemm]

thanks!

[@menotyou135]

How would this language deal with names? Would you use your profile picture?

[@conjecturemm]

I was thinking about a pronoun modifier which is explained more in the video on Everything Else

[@miriamrosemary9110]

Link to the video please?

[@elementor85]

maybe I'm the only one who thinks this way or maybe not, but at the beginning before knowing how emojis were used like, I thought that they were a kind of from kanjis but maybe more user-friendly. For example, instead of writing I like to play guitar I just abbreviate the word guitar using its corresponding emoji.

[@visualanxiety9681]

I don't feel dead inside.

[@blue0eyes6]

Good work! Missed your videos :)

[@conjecturemm]

:)

[@nillewenne2934]

in the group, will we use the dictionary you created or just whatever we want to use?

[@conjecturemm]

whatever you all naturally decide

[@TSBoncompte]

as a conlanger, someone who makes up fictional languages for fun, this isn't quite a language but rather a writing system. still is neat, though it would probably have been more useful if it only used emoji, instead of the various diacritics and stuff

[@conjecturemm]

Haha well funny story I was viewing this comment on mobile and it cut it off before you said you realized I did say that. So I was close to responding something like "you should watch the second half" but I clicked on "read more" before writing that so I didn't. We basically did the same thing

[@TSBoncompte]

xD fucking brilliant

[@izzomapping7430]

Someone told me that the original artwork from Barack Obama for the book "Alice in Wonderland" was lost forever.

[@izzy1933]

hah this is so cool, we watched a video of yours in school, forgotten I'd subscribed to you, nice to see this in my subscription box

[@conjecturemm]

ah sweet. which did you watch?

[@izzy1933]

hmm, pretty sure it was hex codes

[@louisng114]

1) The "e" is "emoji" is supposed to be an /ɛ/ sound like edit and edible. 2) Midway through the first half, I was thinking that the grammar rules are very English-centric. Then I realized that there is a fake ending. XD

[@conjecturemm]

:D

[@eefsss4603]

But to do “tenses” you are not using emojis... Why not combine it with another emoji instead of doing those lines?

[@Jourail]

I'm french, from Normandy, and I can say that you prononce "émouvoir" good. ;)

[@conjecturemm]

Haha yay, I tried!

[@ryanboudreau4941]

I don’t think walls like my toilet water.

[@zacharysickles9348]

The great fictional piece The Cat and the Hat is a great book to bring to the zoo with your 19 children and horse named Show.

[@mrwednesday687]

All sentences have already been transcribed in that online library thing Edit: it's called Library of Babel

[@Azim97]

2:08 i can see my italian language 😂

[@conjecturemm]

la nostra* lingua ;)

[@milojacquet7507]

Why do the freezing pandas have personae that smell like catastrophic acid valleys?

[@kaioocarvalho]

Here is a much better idea: write Toki Pona logographically using emojis.

[@KatyCunningham]

okay this is actually amazing omg!!! but i'm wondering, does ios 10 (or any future ios updates) change the language??

[@conjecturemm]

they might change the physical appearance of emojis but emojis also appear differently from android to facebook and skype, etc. See you soon ;)

[@aasmund_ks6369]

Matt and Tom! :D

[@jzjzjzj]

The floating sunflower in the volcano on the turtle of flight and death on a journey to the moon and then later the turtle will die in a horrible explosion.

[@renoisawesome6993]

I am habby, because i wrote a comment on a youtube video on the internet while riding a bike

[@bananamanasaur]

this is so good

[@conjecturemm]

thanks!

[@rev_lunar]

You may have developed the writing system for English, but I don't see why you couldn't translate it and apply it to other languages. For example one could write in English with emojis, "She drives to the store," and another person would be able to read in Spanish, "Ella conduce a la tienda." Theoretically, as long as the people speaking different languages all used the same writing style with emojis there would be no need for translations.

[@conjecturemm]

that's true, if there is a mapping of symbols to concepts then it is theoretically doable! But that would still be a universal writing system, not a spoken language

[@violetnhz]

Elephants stomp, birds sqeual pen pineapple apple pen

[@SidRandom]

The fair judicator superseded the fictitious elucidation representing transparent microanalytical turtle shaped perforations in said document by proposing a multidimensional facsimile of a judo chop performed by a one armed orangutan on LSD in a vacuum.

[@Gleanix]

I love you, son.

[@conjecturemm]

[@calebgrassi7494]

Thanks, conjecture! ( - :

[@kargaroc386]

Also most of the comments on this video have likely never been said before.

[@idavaremhats-aleksandrova3419]

"i have a yellow pand in my butt" I dont know if anyone has ever said that 🤔

[@Mooshyoshii]

give me back that filet-o-fish with a vsauce4 youtube channel name.

[@conjecturemm]

hm what a strange sentence

[@R4ndomNMBRS]

counterclockwise is the future? No. I understand that it made sense but you might've kept drawing them to the left or right, more consistent easily understandable. what emojis mean what is very hard good job, 'the' is confusing though and there may be some other words that we might consider dropping from the language.Yeah, I did enjoy the video, thanks for the ideas!

[@eefsss4603]

I thought these sentences in the comments were from an app or website that you typed emojis into (like a translator) and it converted it to English. (Also this is a sentence that has probably never been written.)

[@colitipal]

😀👩‍👧😡. This means “my mom is angry.”

[@abcdefg9213]

Hi Matt

[@conjecturemm]

Hi abcdefg

[@abcdefg9213]

I was just too busy to watch and too tempted to make the second overall comment. Sorry😀

[@timmymotonsr.4200]

Good vid=good money 💰

[@wellingtonharris4536]

looks like real

[@conjecturemm]

looks like Kurzgesagt

[@liamolaoghaire]

That Twitch emote reference Kappa

[@conjecturemm]

eyyy glad someone got it

[@daseinbot]

That Poe's law, that's something I've been thinking about, thanks for mentioning it! Now I can learn more about it :3 And an interesting video in general, of course! ^^ Happy to see you again ^^ Thinking about a sentence that's never been spoken before reminded me of this kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHenYWSoa8qlqdk

[@shelleyoconnor7145]

Maybe🗣could mean language

[@kiian3288]

5:57

[@xMack_]

You should maybe do a collab with Jake from Vsauce 3 He recently posted about you, that's also how I found you. I guess if he isn't too busy he would agree :) Edit: Nice video

[@nickszary7]

i love you

[@conjecturemm]

if this is supposed to be a sentence that was never said before...aw

[@crumbopulisrouge3806]

You have to the app for first kind and have the game option for the game and the game option for free roam is the game option for the free game and you have the option of the free game and the free game is not a good just keep free if free you have the its iPhone iPod game