Proposal roposal to Encode a Mammoth Emoji Emoji

Proposal
roposal to Encode a Mammoth Emoji
Andrew West
1 May 2016
1. Introduction
This is a proposal to encode an
a emoji character representing the Woolly Mammoth
(Mammuthus primigenius),
), an extinct hairy pachyderm with distinctive long curving tusks.
A mammoth is often used as a metaphor for something gigantic, such as a “mammoth sale”.
A Mammoth emoji could be used in combination with other emoji to express sentiments
such as “Wow, that’s a mammoth hamburger!”.
Y MAMMOTH would also be
The proposed
posed character name is MAMMOTH, although WOOLLY
acceptable.
2. Sample Images
A
B
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D
E
Sources:
A. http://www.wpclipart.com/animals/extinct/mammal/mammoth/Mammoth_wooly.png.html
(public domain)
B. http://www.clker.com/clipart-152724.html
http://www.clker.com/clipart
(free use)
-clip-art/mammothC. http://www.clipartlord.com/category/animals-clip-art/extinct-animalshttp://www.clipartlord.com/category/animals
clip-art/ (free use)
D. http://www.clipartlord.com/category/animals-clip-art/extinct-animalshttp://www.clipartlord.com/category/animals
-clip-art/mammothclip-art/ (free use)
E. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mammuthus_Size_comparison.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mammuthus_Size_comparison.png (public domain)
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3. Selection Factors
Factors for Inclusion
A. Compatibility.
No compatibility requirements.
B. Expected usage level.
1. Frequency.
High expected frequency of use. This is indicated by the large number of references to a
mammoth emoji on social media. A sample of anonymized tweets on Twitter mentioning
mammoth emoji, mostly dating from between January 2015 and April 2016, are listed
below. Many of these tweets bemoan the lack of a mammoth emoji, and some of them try
to represent a mammoth using elephants or other animals, but there is no obvious or
consistent way of doing this.
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Gotta love shedding season! (Cue the wooly mammoth emoji) haha!
Ima need my mammoth emoji and variety pack of cat emojis.
Somehow I can force myself to workout on a Saturday but shaving my legs is just too
much. Why is there no wooly mammoth emoji?
WANT WANT WANT *mammoth emoji*
Where is a Mammoth emoji
Pig reminds me of a baby mammoth 🐖=>(insert mammoth emoji)
love u more 💜 🐗 (there's no wooly mammoth emoji)
Ah, I'm glad you like that emoji! (and that you knew it was a mammoth and not an
elephant 😉❤ )
remember what we said about the mammoth emoji?😂🐘
Says mammoth. Uses horse emoji. Okay 😂
when there's no mammoth emoji so you use the horse one
Is that emoji 🐴 supposed to be a mammoth?😂😂😂
Yea i kno that was a sheep but aint no mammoth emoji bih
theres no mammoth emoji and I feel personally attacked
🐘(there isn't a wooly mammoth emoji)
Ice Age *insert mammoth, sloth and saber emoji*
AND WHY ISNT THERE A WOLLY MAMMOTH EMOJI
looks insane!! I must get this (insert mammoth emoji here)
That is a serious issue. I would also like to see a saber tooth tiger and a woolly
mammoth emoji. 👍
If there was a mammoth emoji this is where it would go🐘
why can't their be a mammoth emoji???
They should have a woolly mammoth emoji
🐗🐘 (there is not wooly mammoth emoji sadly)
*mammoth emoji*
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searched after a woolly mammoth emoji, I seriously thought there's one ...
💙*woolly mammoth emoji*
*insert mammoth emoji* !!!!
looking forward to meeting your mammoth in Glasgow 🐘 (no mammoth emoji but
there is a cute elephant!)
Manny will love on!!!! 🐘 (ik it's an elephant, but there's no wooly mammoth emoji.)
I wish there was a mammoth emoji
The fact that the wooly mammoth emoji doesn't exist makes me mad
I didn't choose the mammoth life; the mammoth life chose me. #mammothemoji
WHY IS THERE NO TURKEY OR MAMMOTH EMOJI
There's no wooly mammoth or bison emoji. http://instagram.com/p/yio2A9xaty/
Mammoth *Mammoth emoji*
*mammoth emoji*
Mammoth day [insert mammoth emoji]
why isn't there a mammoth emoji or anything ik srsly Manfred would be so
disappointed
that's. An elephant not a mammoth Emoji
DESIRED EMOJI: Otter, wooly mammoth, someone bent over & throwing up
I feel like a wooly mammoth but there's no emoji to express my feelings.
But that emoji was an elephant ...#mammothemoji
Helping chaperone Oliver's 4th grade mammoth cave field trip today. Are they extinct
or... #MammothEmoji
2. Multiple usages.
The mammoth is widely used as a metaphor for something huge, usually in a positve sense.
The ‘Woolly Mammoth’ is also sometimes used figuratively in reference to excessive body
hair (see Twitter quotes above).
The Oxford English Dictionary definition for “mammoth, adj.” states: “Comparable to the
mammoth in size; huge, gigantic.” Quotations from Oxford English Dictionary illustrating
the figurative meaning of mammoth:
1801 T. Jefferson Let. 22 Oct. in Papers (2008) XXXV. 479, I recieved..a present of a quarter of a Mammoth-veal
which at 115. days old weighed 438. lb.
1802 O. Oldschool in Port Folio (Philadelphia) 30 Jan. 31/3 A baker in this city offers Mammoth bread for sale.
1803 J. Davis Trav. U.S.A. ix. 329 Its extraordinary dimensions induced some wicked wag of a federalist to call it
the Mammoth Cheese.
1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 309 (note) The great cave in Kentucky is called the Mammoth Cave, although
none of the remains of that animal have been found in it.
1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. xv. 262 All the streets of the mammoth metropolis.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 20 June 7/1 Yorkshire made another mammoth score.
1924 W. R. Inge Lay Thoughts (1926) iii. ii. 192 The new journalism, with its ‘mammoth combines’, is good
business, but bad democracy.
1956 Hansard Commons 10 May 1450 The coal industry today is having to undertake this mammoth
reorganisation because of the failures of hon. Members opposite in the years between the wars.
1974 Economist 21 Dec. 65/1 Britain's mammoth current account deficit.
1988 Squash World May–June 37/1 After relatively straightforward semi-finals..the final developed into a
struggle of mammoth proportions.
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C. Image distinctiveness.
The mammoth has a distinctive appearance, with thick, reddish hair, domed head, and long
curving tusks. It is instantly recognisable, and distinguishable from an elephant.
D. Completeness.
Fills a gap in extinct animals.
E. Frequently requested.
Yes. See Twitter quotes listed above.
Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/mammoth/> has 383,732 posts
tagged #mammoth, compared with 2,544,838 posts tagged #elephant; but considerably
more than #brontosaurus (14,625 posts) and #triceratops (71,955 posts).
Factors for Exclusion
F. Overly specific.
No. Although an elephant has connotations of large size, and the elephant emoji could be
used to denote the concept of “jumbo”, only a mammoth emoji could denote the concept of
“mammoth”, which is considerably larger than “jumbo”. Also the hairiness of the Woolly
Mammoth is an important feature which the elephant does not possess.
G. Open-ended.
No, there is only one mammoth.
H. Already Representable.
No. People have tried to represent a mammoth on Twitter and other social media using an
elephant or other animals, but as there is no ‘woolly emoji’ (which would allow mammoth
to be represented by the sequence woolly emoji plus elephant emoji), there is no obvious
way of representing the mammoth, and attempts to do so are not consistent.
I. Logos, brands, UI icons, signage, specific people, deities.
No.
J. Transient.
No. The Mammoth has been an iconic animal for over two hundred years; and has been
used with a figurative meaning since the early 19th century.
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4. Proposal Summary Form
SO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2
PROPOSAL SUMMARY FORM TO ACCOMPANY SUBMISSIONS
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FOR ADDITIONS TO THE REPERTOIRE OF ISO/IEC 10646
Please fill all the sections A, B and C below.
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Please read Principles and Procedures Document (P & P) from http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/principles.html for
guidelines and details before filling this form.
Please ensure you are using the latest Form from http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/summaryform.html .
See also http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/roadmaps.html for latest Roadmaps.
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A. Administrative
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1. Title:
Proposal to Encode a Mammoth Emoji
Andrew West
2. Requester's name:
3. Requester type (Member body/Liaison/Individual contribution):
Individual contribution
2016-05-01
4. Submission date:
5. Requester's reference (if applicable):
6. Choose one of the following:
YES
This is a complete proposal:
(or) More information will be provided later:
B. Technical – General
1. Choose one of the following:
NO
a. This proposal is for a new script (set of characters):
Proposed name of script:
YES
b. The proposal is for addition of character(s) to an existing block:
Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
Name of the existing block:
1
2. Number of characters in proposal:
3. Proposed category (select one from below - see section 2.2 of P&P document):
A-Contemporary
X B.1-Specialized (small collection)
B.2-Specialized (large collection)
C-Major extinct
D-Attested extinct
E-Minor extinct
F-Archaic Hieroglyphic or Ideographic
G-Obscure or questionable usage symbols
YES
4. Is a repertoire including character names provided?
a. If YES, are the names in accordance with the “character naming guidelines”
YES
in Annex L of P&P document?
YES
b. Are the character shapes attached in a legible form suitable for review?
5. Fonts related:
a. Who will provide the appropriate computerized font to the Project Editor of 10646 for publishing the
standard?
Andrew West
b. Identify the party granting a license for use of the font by the editors (include address, e-mail, ftp-site, etc.):
Andrew West
6. References:
NO
a. Are references (to other character sets, dictionaries, descriptive texts etc.) provided?
b. Are published examples of use (such as samples from newspapers, magazines, or other sources)
NO
of proposed characters attached?
7. Special encoding issues:
Does the proposal address other aspects of character data processing (if applicable) such as input,
NO
presentation, sorting, searching, indexing, transliteration etc. (if yes please enclose information)?
8. Additional Information:
Submitters are invited to provide any additional information about Properties of the proposed Character(s) or Script
that will assist in correct understanding of and correct linguistic processing of the proposed character(s) or script.
Examples of such properties are: Casing information, Numeric information, Currency information, Display behaviour
information such as line breaks, widths etc., Combining behaviour, Spacing behaviour, Directional behaviour, Default
Collation behaviour, relevance in Mark Up contexts, Compatibility equivalence and other Unicode normalization
related information. See the Unicode standard at http://www.unicode.org for such information on other scripts. Also
see Unicode Character Database ( http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/ ) and associated Unicode Technical Reports
for information needed for consideration by the Unicode Technical Committee for inclusion in the Unicode Standard.
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C. Technical - Justification
NO
1. Has this proposal for addition of character(s) been submitted before?
If YES explain
2. Has contact been made to members of the user community (for example: National Body,
NO
user groups of the script or characters, other experts, etc.)?
If YES, with whom?
If YES, available relevant documents:
3. Information on the user community for the proposed characters (for example:
NO
size, demographics, information technology use, or publishing use) is included?
Reference:
common
4. The context of use for the proposed characters (type of use; common or rare)
Reference:
5. Are the proposed characters in current use by the user community?
YES
If YES, where? Reference:
6. After giving due considerations to the principles in the P&P document must the proposed characters be entirely
NO
in the BMP?
If YES, is a rationale provided?
If YES, reference:
N/A
7. Should the proposed characters be kept together in a contiguous range (rather than being scattered)?
8. Can any of the proposed characters be considered a presentation form of an existing
NO
character or character sequence?
If YES, is a rationale for its inclusion provided?
If YES, reference:
9. Can any of the proposed characters be encoded using a composed character sequence of either
NO
existing characters or other proposed characters?
If YES, is a rationale for its inclusion provided?
If YES, reference:
10. Can any of the proposed character(s) be considered to be similar (in appearance or function)
NO
to, or could be confused with, an existing character?
If YES, is a rationale for its inclusion provided?
If YES, reference:
NO
11. Does the proposal include use of combining characters and/or use of composite sequences?
If YES, is a rationale for such use provided?
If YES, reference:
Is a list of composite sequences and their corresponding glyph images (graphic symbols) provided?
If YES, reference:
12. Does the proposal contain characters with any special properties such as
NO
control function or similar semantics?
If YES, describe in detail (include attachment if necessary)
13. Does the proposal contain any Ideographic compatibility characters?
If YES, are the equivalent corresponding unified ideographic characters identified?
If YES, reference:
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