just read 'The Melting Face Emoji Has Already Won Us Over - The New York Times

date linked: 29 September 2021

source: link to article, from nytimes.com

I immediately connected with this emoji the first time I saw it. Also, I remember writing a paper in high school arguing that emoticons were legitimate “language.” The paper was horrible, but I still believe in that central thesis, and I think emojis are vindicating it.

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Even though emoji are regularly part of my research data, it still feels weird to include them in a journal article manuscript.

It is only just now occurring to me to check for an emoji of the flag of La Francophonie, so I am not surprised (if still disappointed) that it does not exist.

It’s amazing how much French I’m learning translating students’ tweets to English for a research project. Language is so rich, and limiting it to 280 characters arguably makes it more so.

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