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SRE@PagerDuty. Geek, Buddhist, husband, introvert, devop, social justice worrier, musician, vegetarian, urbanist. He/him. May all beings be free from suffering.

Toronto, Ontario
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    1. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 16 Aug 2018
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      I started fact-checking a book about emoji and the book was so hilaribad it turned into a thread-reviewhttps://twitter.com/GretchenAMcC/status/1030105026197430272 …

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      Here's an emoji sequence that is claimed to be readily interpretable by Millennials. Please give me your best attempts at deciphering it. 👀 1️⃣🐜 ✌️💪 📥 🍑 👀 🚫 1️⃣🐜 ✌️ 🚬 pic.twitter.com/iHJhrrVR4R
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    2. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 4 Nov 2019
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      I finally got around to posting the academic book review that I wrote based on this twitter thread, if you would like to see a terrible book about emoji politely eviscerated (like an ant)https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AMMrVlXrz8CuhIg4DIm5kaLO3njXL1ST …

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    3. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 4 Nov 2019
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      Shoutout to my twitter followers, especially the ones who replied to that earlier thread, aka "my own group of informants, which comprised over a hundred emoji enthusiasts from the Millennial, Gen X, and Gen Z demographics."pic.twitter.com/wRCmtoEj1q

      An illustrative example of the limitations of Danesi’s approach is in his analysis of the following sequence of emoji (p. 124), which is attributed to an undated “Partnership for Drugs Free Kids” campaign aimed at Millennials.

Danesi claims that this sequence “can be reformulated in words as follows: ‘I’m tired
of drinking or doing things to fit in (like an ant).’ So, ‘I need to be strong and eat the right things an
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    4. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 4 Nov 2019
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      If you want to write about emoji, your primary account must be of emoji in their authentic use, much as the writer of a grammar of English cannot use as primary reference texts “Jabberwocky” and Finnegan’s Wake.pic.twitter.com/F1ZFfRh0g5

      Overall, what The Semiotics of Emoji misses is the fact that emoji are interesting not because they are general-purpose small pictures; small pictures have been around for much of human history and many ideas for their use have been proposed to varying degrees of success (e.g., Blissymbolics, Pitman shorthand, clip art, rebuses, and illuminated manuscript marginalia).
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    5. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 4 Nov 2019
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      Normally, when I recommend a book, I like to recommend it to "both x and y" where x and y are a nice range of groups who I think would enjoy it. Sadly, I....had to do the opposite for this book.pic.twitter.com/eYbVbycCGa

      statements like “Semiotics is used here as a generic tool for evaluating the data, not a technical one” (p. 16), lead one to suspect that practising semioticians may recognize little of their field in The Semiotics of Emoji.
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      rich lafferty, contributing factor‏ @mendel 4 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @GretchenAMcC

      what is even going on in therepic.twitter.com/kkYqdRxGfy

      6:21 PM - 4 Nov 2019
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        2. Carrie Lynn‏ @ProfClarySage 4 Nov 2019
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          Oh no did somebody confuse Unicode with emojipedia again 😅

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        3. Gretchen McCulloch‏Verified account @GretchenAMcC 4 Nov 2019
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          Replying to @ProfClarySage @mendel

          Emojipedia is...also not a wiki though

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