Cara and Ed gather on this minisode to celebrate a huge milestone for the podcast: 500 downloads! We discuss the research of Gretchen McCulloch about emojis as language and a little bit about the experiment that was Emoji Dick (an Emoji translation re-telling of Moby Dick). We also discuss how we use emojis in our day to day lives.

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References:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/62584/will-we-all-speak-emoji-language-couple-years

https://the-toast.net/2016/06/29/a-linguist-explains-emoji-and-what-language-death-actually-looks-like/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Ybyoaz9iw

https://lingthusiasm.com/post/186386270916/lingthusiasm-episode-34-emoji-are-gesture-because