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Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
@noelle
It's interesting to me that "emoticon" and "emoji" look so similar but are etymologically unrelated.
"emoticon" - "emotion" + "icon"
"emoji" - 絵 ("e", meaning "picture" or "art") + 文字 ("moji", meaning "(written) character" or "kana")
@noelle and then you can take a crowbar to it and force some italian in there to make the singular of emoji an emojo!
@noelle I wonder if emoji would have caught on without the false emotion etymology that help us remember it..
@noelle Huh, I didn't know that.
@noelle Oh wow, that is interesting
The deepest I've gone is figuring an emoticon is :) and an emoji is 🙂