For this episode, we want to hear about the emoji usages or combinations that are unique to you and your social network. We’ll unearth new patterns, or at least shine a light on the variability of digital communication. We’re taking your comments live on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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What emoji combinations do you use? How do you say woo-hoo in emoji? For this episode, it’s all about your emoji innovations, and Danae is talking to Daniel ahead of the show.
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Reflections on 380: Emoji Innovations
Welcome to… Reflections. 🎹
I love live Q&A’s because — well — they’re a little easier. They don’t require all the editing of a regular show, and because the listeners hand us a lot of the material, they don’t require as much preparation, either.
What I wasn’t prepared for was the way that emails and tweets came in continuously throughout the episode. Y’all really kept the conversation moving! And I enjoyed reading everything out as it all happened in real time.
Of course, having Hedvig on the line made it fun. We always have good chats. I think the three of us would keep having enjoyable weekly chats even if there weren’t a show.
Then there was the way that we stumbled across a possible sociolinguistic variable. We tried to think of the name for the thing that you blow on at parties, and it unrolls and makes a tooting noise? Like this guy is using: 🥳. There are Twitterand Facebookthreads going, so check those out.
Our next show will also be a live Q&A, so we’re looking for our next topic. Something people will want to chime in with. Got any ideas? We’d love to hear them.
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Show notes
Twitter thread
Facebook thread
https://www.facebook.com/talkthetalkpodcast/photos/a.1020661894627269/3049550461738392/?type=3&theater
Bottle Cap Puzzles and Answers – Riddles.com
https://www.riddles.com/caps
Is that an OK sign? A white power symbol? Or just a right-wing troll? | Southern Poverty Law Center
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white-power-symbol-or-just-right-wing-troll
How the “OK” Symbol Became a Popular Trolling Gesture | Anti-Defamation League
https://www.adl.org/blog/how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-trolling-gesture
New Zealand Mosque Shooting Suspect Smirks, Flashes White Power Sign In Court | HuffPost Australia
https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/new-zealand-mosque-shooting-suspect-smirks-flashes-white-power-sign-in-court_n_5c8cbe63e4b0db7da9f3b8f5
Trump Flashes “OK” Sign While Talking About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Rolling Stone
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-ocasio-cortez-hand-gesture-860776/
(PDF) When Theory is a Joke: The Weinreich Witticism in Linguistics.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329772713_When_Theory_is_a_Joke_The_Weinreich_Witticism_in_Linguistics
Haskalah – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskalah
Food for thought: “a language is a dialect with a missionary and a dictionary”
http://humans-who-read-grammars.blogspot.com/2014/11/food-for-thought-language-is-dialect.html
“I just know it”: Intensification as evidence for non-presuppositional factivity | Linguistic Society of America
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/abstract/i-just-know-it-intensification-evidence-non-presuppositional-factivity
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