[Ads-l] "emojify", "emojifiable", "emojification"--productivity in action

[Ben Zimmer]

I first recall seeing "emojify" back on April Fool's Day 2014:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=11477

Google Chrome's parodic plans for emojification don't seem quite as silly
now.


On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 12:12 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/arts/design/hands-off-my-smiley-face-emoji-become-corporate-tools.html
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> “You know, sometimes you’ve typed a whole message and you realize at the
> end that you’re entirely lacking in emojification,” said Craig Federighi,
> Apple’s senior vice president for software engineering. “So we provided the
> solution: When you tap on the emoji button, we’ll highlight all the
> emojifiable words there, and you can just tap, tap, tap, tap and emojify.”
>
>
> WOTY candidates?
>
> LH
>
>
>
>

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