Monday, July 17, 2017

¯\(ツ)/¯

It's world emoji day! ...GG!

As one might guess, the idea of expressing emotion with internet communication
started in the US; by 1980, people were using punctuation marks.
The first emoji bank of symbols was actually the work of a Japanese
telephone company (2000) and contains symbols that are not related to emotion: it 
is vocabulary  for mobile communication. Interestingly, research shows negative
emoticons are rarely used (although I suspect negative abbreviations surely are).

for a discussion from France:
http://www.lefigaro.fr/langue-francaise/actu-des-mots/2017/07/17/37002-20170717ARTFIG00037-pierre-halte-l-emoji-n-est-pas-un-appauvrissement-du-langage.php

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