[Ads-l] plural of "emoji"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Wait, if the singular is emojum, wouldn't the plural be emoja??

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 1:24 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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
> >
> > Geoffrey S. Nathan
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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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> > > 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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