Jane Solomon

Why does a site that informs you that 🍆 Eggplant means “penis” belong in a government-funded library?

The pandemic may have warped our collective sense of time, but time has always been strange in the emoji world. Starting around April 2020, a cluster of articles popped up exploring the science of how time [https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-time-warp-what-day-is-it/] feels [https://www.vox.com/2020/5/7/

In fall 2020, a new baby is coming to town. That baby is the swaddled and bottlefed bundle in Person Feeding Baby [https://emojipedia.org/person-feeding-baby/], and that town is your emoji keyboard. Above: Person, woman, and man bottle feeding baby. Images: Google.Unicode’s approval of Person Feeding Baby

Spelling out words with emojis is not the most typical use of these tiny images, but it is fascinating. On September 24, 2019, Lizzo tweeted a peach emoji. This is an extremely common emoji for her to use. In fact, in 2017 the singer/rapper/songwriter/flautist, who often twerks

When it comes to emojis and punctuation, the rules are still up in the air. In absence of any formal conventions, emojis’ place alongside traditional punctuation often comes down to a rubric of subjective user intuition. Additionally emojis are being used as punctuation in a variety of ways, sometimes to