Emoji(s) are hot news these days. In the NYT yesterday, “Look Who’s Smiley Now: MoMA Acquires Original Emoji” by Amanda Hess. And just a bit earlier, two cartoons linking emoji to hieroglyphics, one by Cameron Harvey, the other by a cartoonist I haven’t identified. And before that, an article about emoji scholars, including our local specialist, Tyler Schnoebelen.
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Emoji days
October 28, 2016Posted in Language technology, Linguistics in the comics, Signs and symbols, Social life, Social media, Terminology, Writing systems | Leave a Comment »
Two New Yorker cartoons
October 9, 2015Two recent cartoons: a Zach Kanin on the male body in cartoons (in the 9/28 issue), a Liam Francis Walsh on social media (in the 10/5 issue):
Posted in Double entendres, Gender and sexuality, Idioms, Language of sex, Linguistics in the comics, Social media, These modern times | 6 Comments »