[Ads-l] plural of "emoji"

[Andy Bach]

> 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

Yes, well I was thinking it would be the 3rd declension in the, er,
imperative sense.

https://youtu.be/wjOfQfxmTLQ?t=22  "How many Romans?"

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 2:18 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > Yes ita est
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Jan 10, 2020, at 1:29 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
> >>>> WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
> >>>> Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
> >>>> http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
> >>>> geoffnathan at wayne.edu
> >>>>
> >>>> From: Laurence Horn<mailto:laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2020 9:57 PM
> >>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU<mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >>>> 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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