Oxford Dictionaries picks crying emoji as word of the year

Get ready to feel old, or confused, or crotchety, or any number of the things people are expressing about Oxford Dictionaries' new word of the year -- it's an emoji. Not the word 'emoji,' but rather an emoji, a pictograph that is not, in the strictest sense, a word. Linguists have waxed poetically about the interesting twist emoji brings to …