Alice Robb, “How Using Emoji Makes Us Less Emotional” (The New Republic, July 7, 2014)
Emoticons and emoji are changing the way we communicate faster than linguists can keep up with or lexicographers can regulate. “It’s the wild west of the emoji era,” said linguist Ben Zimmer over the phone. “People are making up the rules as they go. It’s completely organic.”
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