The secret panel governing the world's newest language: emojis
June Samaras <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Nov 2019 01:51:07 -0500
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Seems more like a movement back to using ancient pictographs than a wonderful newly minted method of communucation - a system for expressing instant emotional reactions but not for ideas, explanations or nuanced discussons June S ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: The Boston Globe <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Nov 3, 2019, 10:08 AM <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D90f9e490a860897c7155feca1%26id%3D3d59e59ce9%26e%3D116760ad9b&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Cbd526c9b610e478126f608d760f36745%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637084470851517330&sdata=j3wOoYQK8a%2FArmZDmVlY7bWnHzrlQLLua9SbabfzSFY%3D&reserved=0> <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D90f9e490a860897c7155feca1%26id%3D204ab01f1d%26e%3D116760ad9b&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Cbd526c9b610e478126f608d760f36745%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637084470851517330&sdata=Q0bt21woPGaOEmNm47%2FMNcnZ5z3FsAKz3j61qVFMcTM%3D&reserved=0> <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D90f9e490a860897c7155feca1%26id%3D1dabc172b2%26e%3D116760ad9b&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Cbd526c9b610e478126f608d760f36745%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637084470851517330&sdata=GfvoqWWU4EDV3svmaMiiRrtQm42EMsvhxoghB4y1hm8%3D&reserved=0> View web version <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmailchi.mp%2Fbostonglobe.com%2Fthe-secret-panel-governing-the-worlds-newest-language-emojis%3Fe%3D116760ad9b&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Cbd526c9b610e478126f608d760f36745%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637084470851517330&sdata=n6u7x08AzbWZ%2FsqUx48f368P%2FVEkMTzYa5PIcKW%2B2Jk%3D&reserved=0> <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D90f9e490a860897c7155feca1%26id%3D6b3934c67c%26e%3D116760ad9b&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Cbd526c9b610e478126f608d760f36745%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637084470851517330&sdata=R3gcMVZqsoQpA17FZBvagDtwrnUE785dNYukUHiYP%2Fo%3D&reserved=0> *One committee wields power over our common language* Used by 2.9 billion people across the globe, emojis have the ability to communicate across countries, cultures, and languages. If you were to consider emoji a language, it would by far be the most popular in the world. Yet this emerging language used by so many is controlled by just a handful of people — the powerful and mysterious emoji committee. Who are the people behind this committee? How did they come to be the gatekeepers to the world’s first genuinely universal language? 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