Can You Speak Emoji?

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea Help PBSDS win a Webby Award by voting here: https://pv.webbyawards.com/2016/online-film-video/video-channels-and-networks/science-education Is emoji a form of speech? Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelfacebook Talk about this episode on reddit! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelreddit Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelirc Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com As the popularity of emoji has risen over the last decade, many of these little symbols have taken on lives of their own. We use them to portray emotion that can otherwise get lost in a text-based conversation. But does that mean that these little pictures qualify as language? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­­---------------------------- Gretchen McCulloch's Blog: http://allthingslinguistic.com/ Check out Gretchen’s talk at SXSW here: https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/the-linguistic-secrets-found-in-billions-of-emoji-sxsw-interactive-2016 http://www.slideshare.net/SwiftKey/the-linguistic-secrets-found-in-billions-of-emoji-sxsw-2016-presentation-59956212 Idea Channel Meetup: 9pm on Friday 4/15/16 @ http://thedurham.com/roof/ Hackathon info: http://hack.unctv.org/ ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­­---------------------------- Mike on Mental Floss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nAP1Qq9Bxg ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­­---------------------------- TWEET OF THE WEEK: https://twitter.com/sortaloquacious/status/718159520233488384 ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­­---------------------------- ASSET LINKS: All asset links can be viewed here in this fun Google doc! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ufXT8B23cdbeU9LboAr0UbihdeLtQPRUjBeAUGtRGa4/edit?usp=sharing ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­---------------------------- MUSIC at 4:01 Monotone - Minimalist https://soundcloud.com/montone-2/minimalist ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­­---------------------------- Written and hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) (who also has a podcast! Reasonably Sound: http://bit.ly/1sCn0BF) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com)