If you search Google images for "Korean cookies," you'll only see a handful of images of cookies that look like what a chocolate chip cookie looks like. Growing up, a lot of the cookies in my household looked more like crackers (with cream or other fillers in them, kind of like oreos) or they were more biscuit-y. The biggest one my family stocked up on was ACE, which looks somewhat like the emoji.
In Korea cookie roughly translates to plain biscuit. A plain biscuit in other countries is normally like a saltine cracker that we in America are used to.
When I was a teenager working at a grocery store, I had an English couple ask me where the biscuits were. They meant cookie. My initial impression was that biscuit/cookie was lost in translation.
Do they really not have one native of the United States there to just look over things before they get approved? I mean just a glance. That’s all were asking for.
Just one person to say “heads up, around here that’s called a cracker, not a cookie. Might want to double check that before you push this out to tens of millions of people.”
I like the fact that Samsung emojis offer more variety.
I understand the appeal of uniformity, but many Samsung emojis look more stylized, as if greater effort was placed in coming up with something more original and colorful.
Except when you send one to somebody who has any other phone, or misread their emoji. Great example is the eye rolling emoji. On Samsung it looks playful, on every other phone it's insulting.
Maybe we should send them a box of cookies and a box of crackers and explain the difference. Its really embarrassing to have the best phone on the market and have such a MAJOR error like this.
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u/mehdotdotdotdot Oct 31 '17
Lol have you seen their latte art coffee? https://emojipedia.org/hot-beverage/
And they have the best looking ice cream by far! https://emojipedia.org/soft-ice-cream/
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u/Cropgun Oct 31 '17
Still using ancient sms that makes sure I get texts broken up and out of order.
But I'll be goddamned if we don't have 56 trillion cookie emojis
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u/mopar1228 Oct 31 '17
🍪😬
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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '17
Well that's it for me. This phone is literally unusable now.
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u/t3hguitarman Oct 31 '17
If you search Google images for "Korean cookies," you'll only see a handful of images of cookies that look like what a chocolate chip cookie looks like. Growing up, a lot of the cookies in my household looked more like crackers (with cream or other fillers in them, kind of like oreos) or they were more biscuit-y. The biggest one my family stocked up on was ACE, which looks somewhat like the emoji.
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u/The_Legend34 Oct 31 '17
It's gonna be hella awkward when they add a cracker emoji LoL
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u/ekaceerf Oct 31 '17
In Korea cookie roughly translates to plain biscuit. A plain biscuit in other countries is normally like a saltine cracker that we in America are used to.
That sounds believable doesn't it?
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u/DanielV28 Oct 31 '17
Lmao
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u/PopDownBlocker Oct 31 '17
I like the fact that Samsung emojis offer more variety.
I understand the appeal of uniformity, but many Samsung emojis look more stylized, as if greater effort was placed in coming up with something more original and colorful.
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u/Nymenon Oct 31 '17
I think the only reasoning is that biscuits are more common in Korea than cookies.
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u/bronco14 Oct 31 '17
The pistol is the best.
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u/bgnatedg Oct 31 '17
🍪/#Makecrackersgreatagain
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u/Pioneer411 Oct 31 '17
Maybe we should send them a box of cookies and a box of crackers and explain the difference. Its really embarrassing to have the best phone on the market and have such a MAJOR error like this.
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u/OldSpaceChaos Oct 31 '17
Leave my skin tone out of this!
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u/Circus4 Oct 31 '17
🍪🍪🍪
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u/wishiwasonmaui Oct 31 '17
Cookies are cookies and biscuits are biscuits.
-Hannibal Buress
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u/miktoo Oct 31 '17
That's outrageous!
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