It’s a joke so old, I don’t remember the punch line. A guy stands up in a town hall meeting and shouts a number.  People around him laugh. A second person calls out another number and again those present break into applause. The community is so accustomed to one another, they’v

Six years ago, I wrote that Moby Dick was being translated into emoji. (Click)  I hardly knew what emojis* were at the time.  Since then, Facebook emojis have become familiar, but I’ve never given much thought to how they came into being or how there could be enough to translate a

Recently, I deplored the way Twitter symbols had infiltrated our language.  (Blog 8/26/14)    But I was an innocent.  I’d no idea how emojis, those little symbols used to clarify an electronic messages, had exploded into a complete language seen not only on social networks but