Lauren Hall-Lew writes on Facebook:
2020 is here and #WWIII is the new Twitter hashtag.
Crystal Patterson Muneau follows up:
I need an emoji reaction button to indicate how terrified I am.
You could, of course, just press Edvard Munch’s The Scream into service, or one its its many variants, like this Bizarro version:
(#1)
But actual emoji have been designed.
Posted in Emoji, Facial expression and gesture, Language in politics, Signs and symbols | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to Google Alerts, I can report that the beat goes on in Zürich, with the electro / ambient / techno music of André Zwicky, notably a single released on 5/31/19, “The Storyteller”:
(#1) Cover artwork by Jasmin Mynt Art for the piece (6:39 long)
Posted in Art, Language and food, Language and plants, Music, Switzerland and Swiss things, Zwickys | 3 Comments »
Two familiar phenomena in English usage illustrated from food and cooking: a partially conventionalized t/d-deletion in scramble eggs for standard scrambled eggs; and the use of stainless (for stainless steel) in stainless bowl and stainless flatware — a beheading.
Posted in Beheading, Categorization and Labeling, Conversion, Inflection, Language and food, Morphology, Phonology | 3 Comments »
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