Emoji never cease to fascinate. We often wonder if we can eventually communicate only in these tiny illustrations of pizza slices and lipsticks, and we puzzle over whether we've been interpreting some of the symbols wrong all along. Fred Benenson, a data engineer who is "passionate about emoji," tried to translate Moby Dick into emoji. As far as linguistic projects go, emoji don't quite work -- they don't have all the components needed to make up a whole language. They are, however, convey...
Emoji never cease to fascinate. We often wonder if we can eventually communicate only in these tiny illustrations of pizza slices and lipsticks, and we puzzle over whether we've been interpreting some of the symbols wrong all along. Fred Benenson, a data engineer who is "passionate about emoji," tried to translate Moby Dick into emoji. As far as linguistic projects go, emoji don't quite work -- they don't have all the components needed to make up a whole language. They are, however, convey...
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