The rapid ... erosion of definition ability

[Mark Davis ☕️]

I agree (except for the derivation of "emoji").

On Mon Nov 17 2014 at 11:46:58 AM Leonardo Boiko <leoboiko at namakajiri.net>
wrote:

> "Sign" is too general.  The word has no less than 12 meanings, and can
> refer e.g. to many Unicode characters that are not emojis ("the sharp
> sign", "the less-than sign").[1]
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> It's useful to have a specialized word  referring specifically to the new
> pictograms used to color electronic messages with emotional inflection.
> Borrowing is a perfectly adequate and natural strategy to get such a word
> into a language – as indeed English did with the word "sign", from Old
> French *signe *< Latin *signum* ; and as Japanese did with the English
> word *emotion *, from which the *emo-*  in *emoji, *and with Chinese,
> from which *-ji* "written character".
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> If borrowing words when they're useful is ridiculous, then all languages
> are ridiculous, and when everything is ridiculous nothing is.
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> [1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sign
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> 2014-11-17 8:09 GMT-02:00 Andreas Stötzner <as at signographie.de>:
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>> Am 17.11.2014 um 08:35 schrieb Mark Davis ☕️:
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>> IT’S EASY TO DISMISS EMOJI. They are, at first glance, ridiculous
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>> The only ridiculous thing is to name them “Emoji” outside Japan.
>> They’re just signs and that’s it.
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>> Regards,
>> Andreas Stötzner.
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