Monday, November 16, 2015

Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year Is an Emoji

Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year Is an Emoji: The selection for Oxford Dictionaries word of the year is meant to reflect the current cultural landscape and what we've been talking about lately. The choices of the past few years—GIF, selfie, vape—were relative newcomers that described practices we hadn't needed words for before. This year's choice takes that idea a step further, summing up a practice that takes us beyond words. The word of the year is the "Face with Tears of Joy" emoji:

6 comments:

Jeff Meyerson said...

I really miss the old days.

Deb said...

We're moving into a post-literate society...and that is not a good thing.

Deb said...

Totally unrelated (I think--unless he wrote one of the songs on this week's charts) but my husband just told me P.F. Sloan died.

mybillcrider said...

That's sad news.

Rick Robinson said...

Not even emoticons, which is how they started. I miss the days when people wrote what they meant, with real words and expressions. BAH!

Cap'n Bob said...

I've lived too long.