The Language of "Smart" Phones
I really need to be working on a project so I'm going to make this quick. I just came across an article that said that the word of the year for 2015 is the crying face smiley emoji. If you're like me, you're thinking: but that's not a word, that's a picture! And you would be right. But think about your texting habits. For some people this may not be true, but how often do you use emojis to add meaning to what you are saying, or send only an emoji as a reply to a message? I know that I do it to let people know that I'm joking, or to show that what I was just talking about is really annoying and how I'm sooo not impressed. (I was going to add emojis to show you what I mean, but then I realized that my computer doesn't have an emoji keyboard so that doesn't work. Sorry). The point is, it may not be a word, but we have loaded those little yellow faces with meaning, a meaning which is often far more complex to express in words. Essentially, we are usin...
