[Ads-l] plural of "emoji"

[Laurence Horn]

Right, and although “emoticon” is obviously a Greek neuter and thus ≥2 of them are emotica, “emoji" can only (in the Graeco-Roman world) be a Latin or Italian plural, with the singular “emojus" or “emojo” respectively, as per Geoff.  

> On Jan 10, 2020, at 1:30 PM, Margaret Winters <mewinters at WAYNE.EDU> wrote:
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> Yes ita est
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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
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>>>> Geoffrey S. Nathan
>>>> WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
>>>> 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
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>>>>> like "sheep", or that it is a mass noun.
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>>>> 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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