Space v. Time in the grammar of emojis
Mark Liberman,
Language Log,
Dec 26, 2024
So if emojis can function as a language, what does it look like? "The basic idea is this: putting pictographs in a sequence like words in writing is unnatural compared to making a single picture." tested this, and that is indeed what they found. So emojis aren't like words. But they can still be a language. "Research has argued that we *already* use visual languages in the natural systems people use to draw."
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