EMOJI PICTOGRAPH

EMOJI PICTOGRAPH

Do we know what ‘Emoji Pictograph’ is? Refer to a dictionary, you would say. And there you are we do have ‘emoji pictograph’ in Oxford Dictionary- an entry that is not a word but a symbol, a record of sorts, I believe, showing a yellow smiley face weeping tears of laughter. It has been declared as ‘THE WORD OF THE YEAR’, a ‘No –Word’ is being declared as a word. Now there could be more of such emoticons. And soon all the words in Oxford Dictionary may all be replaced by pictures or signs. For every action there could be representative picture or sign.  For every emotion there would be emoticon.  One may start wondering whether it is English Dictionary or Chinese!

And this how it will look:

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But sometimes we may get confused, now what emotion this particular picture would mean:

It could land you in trouble!
 

                                                                Vinay Trilokekar