[Ads-l] plural of "emoji"

[Andy Bach]

> 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" ;->

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 9:06 PM Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
wrote:

> You’re sure the singular isn’t ‘emojus’. Or perhaps ‘emojo’ (an electronic
> version of mojo, perhaps…)
>
> Geoff
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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
>
> LH
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