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Apparently Emoji is the 'fastest growing language in the UK''
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Linguistics expert Professor Vyv Evans claims that "Emoji is the fastest growing form of language in history, based on its incredible adoption rate and speed of evolution. As a visual language, emoji has already far eclipsed hieroglyphics, its ancient Egyptian precursor which took centuries to develop."
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/bangor-university-expert-says-emoji-9289108
I only have one thing to say about this claim.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/bangor-university-expert-says-emoji-9289108
I only have one thing to say about this claim.
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You could argue that it's a writing system similar to a logography, though even then the amount of information you can convey with emojis is limited mainly to expressing emotions.
Can't wait for "The Complete Works Of Shakespeare In Emoji".
You can actually communicate a lot with them, not just emotions - you might be thinking of emoticons, rather than actual emoji, which there are tons of: http://getemoji.com/ I can certainly see the possibility of them developing a proper grammar, with structural rules and parts of speech and so on. (I do think the professor is getting a bit ahead of himself, though.)
Almost all of those came up as blank rectangles to me. And since it is estimated that the average English speaking person knows 50,000 words, let's not get carried away.
Don't have to! Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet, for a start. (Maybe not up to Shakey's standard of great art...)
I agree. To the best of my (limited) knowledge, heiroglyphics was a fairly "complete" form of writing in that it could be used to document the history and culture of the Ancient Egyptians. Try documenting any historical event using emoji and see how far you get!
And more to the point, why is DS censoring our language?
It's still clear that it isn't a language (though I can definitely see it becoming one in future by developing grammatical markers in the same way that sign language has grammatical markers), but I'm still quite shocked at the extent of the amount of information you can convey.
I always thought emoji were just larger, more obnoxious forms of emoticons and I didn't realise that you could actually communicate with them.
As a 19 year old, this is quite embarrassing because my age group is the one most likely to communicate in this sort of way and evidently I'm completely out of touch.
It turns out my friends do actually understand this gibberish, but have never attempted to communicate anything to me using them because I rarely use emoticons never mind emoji.
I can't ever see myself using them (I've always found them very irritating), but I think I'll read a bit more about and see how they evolve over time purely for academic interest.
Requirements are stated as:- iOS 8.3, OS X 10.10.3 or Windows 10. Otherwise you see little boxes with letters/numbers inside.
Bit limitied by the emoticons available in DS, but this is a scene from Julius Caesar
York Notes version:
That's Romeo and Juliet sorted.
I use the York Notes version because DS won't allow the full version: "You have included 22 images in your message. You are limited to using 10 images so please go back and correct the problem and then continue again."
I don't use them much myself beyond the odd star or heart, but I like watching other people do it!
Even if the language of emojis will forever remain a closed book to me however you've convinced me that they're an alternative means of communication (or an alternative TO a means of communication LOL).
I agree. What an extraordinary thing for a linguistician to say.
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Expert?
Off to a bad start here. Stopped making sense by the end of the second sentence.
http://www.vyvevans.net/
Vyv Evans
Professor of Linguistics
Bangor University
I am Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University, UK. I investigate the prodigious capacity of our species,*Homo sapiens, to mean.
They mis-spoke.