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1. Alesandro Ortiz 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈 14 min later

   @zachleat I once had a relatively new coworker consistently use the middle finger emoji in Slack accidentally for a couple of weeks before we pointed it out.

   Everyone had a good laugh after we told them. They were mortified for a moment, but we told them we also got those emojis mixed up ocassionally. 😂

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @AlesandroOrtiz haha, I love that

   2. Jeff Sheets 1 hr later

      @AlesandroOrtiz @zachleat reminds me when a sweet older relative replied back on a sad funeral text thread with “thanks for sharing LOL”. We called to ask her about it later — to which she embarrassingly said: “I always thought it meant Lots Of Love!” ❤️

      1. Zach Leatherman 14 hr later

         @jeffsheets @AlesandroOrtiz

         “good luck on your new job LOL”

         “congrats on the baby LOL”

2. Phil Hawksworth 30 min later

   @zachleat I feel this too.

   Although i enjoyed a similar mixup recently when my mother-in-law tried to reply to some 🙏 emojis in an earnest family chat, but instead deployed a 👃

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @philhawksworth and the ambiguity of whether 🙏🏼 is a high five or prayer hands 😅

      1. Jon 8 hr later

         @zachleat @philhawksworth I think officially it's high five but looks like prayer and everyone has used it for prayer - I wonder if Apple hope they will change the official meaning and that is why they have held out changing the colour of clothes or hands to better represent two people…

      2. Bernard Nijenhuis 9 hr later

         @zachleat @philhawksworth I'd like to think of it of two people giving a high five, immediately followed by a prayer. It should be animated so they interlock fingers though, and the two people locking eyes and getting closer and...oh well, you get the idea

         1. Zach Leatherman 14 hr later

            @bnijenhuis @philhawksworth only if paired with unbreakable and very aggressive eye contact