[Ads-l] plural of "emoji"

[Margaret Winters]

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> On Jan 10, 2020, at 1:29 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Wait, if the singular is emojum, wouldn't the plural be emoja??
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> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 1:24 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> You’re sure the singular isn’t ‘emojus’. Or perhaps ‘emojo’ (an
>> electronic version of mojo, perhaps…)
>> 
>> Well, actually emoji is the plural, it's the singular everybody's got
>> wrong, s/b "emojum" ;->
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>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 9:06 PM Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
>> wrote:
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>>> You’re sure the singular isn’t ‘emojus’. Or perhaps ‘emojo’ (an
>> electronic
>>> version of mojo, perhaps…)
>>> 
>>> Geoff
>>> 
>>> Geoffrey S. Nathan
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>>> Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
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>>> geoffnathan at wayne.edu
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>>> From: Laurence Horn<mailto:laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2020 9:57 PM
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>>> Subject: Re: plural of "emoji"
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>>>> On Jan 9, 2020, at 9:34 PM, James Landau =
>>> <00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> wrote:
>>>> =20
>>>> In today's "WuMo" cartoon, there is a tombstone with the epitaph =
>>> "Always answered a text and never used too many emoji". The cartoon =
>>> seems to imply that "emoji" is either its own plural,
>>> 
>>> Well, if =E2=80=9Cpanini" can be its own singular (R.I.Panino), no =
>>> reason why =E2=80=9Cemoji" can=E2=80=99t be its own plural. =20
>>> 
>>>> like "sheep", or that it is a mass noun.
>>> 
>>> The former seems more likely, since =E2=80=9Can emoji=E2=80=9D is alive =
>>> and well; there=E2=80=99s even a sheep emoji (and no mass emoji). =20
>>> 
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