Emoji and Jesus H. Christ

[Amy West]

On 7/29/14, 12:00 AM, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:20:43 -0400
> From:    Laurence Horn<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Coney (Re: sea cunny)
>
>
> Oh, on a different topic, although some might consider them to constitute an existential threat to our God-given English lexicon if not an outright perversion, there's a piece on emojis in yesterday's Times Style section, citing Ben:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/fashion/emoji-have-won-the-battle-of-words.html
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> LH
I am emoji-illiterate, so thanks for sending that link along.

But I read this line in the article: "the Unicode Consortium, the 
nonprofit devoted to emoji standardization across platforms, recently 
said it would add 250 emoji to Apple, Microsoft and Google products" and 
had to read it aloud to my husband, following it up with, "Well, that 
may be one thing they do, but they're not devoted to it" and an 
exasperated "Jesus H. Christ" for good measure.

---Amy West


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