• frank@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Okay now’s my time to shine. The words “emoji” and “emoticon” are false cognates, as in they aren’t actually related. Emoticon is a few-decade old word to describe emotion+icon, like :)

      Emoji is Japanese (kanji - 絵文字) for picture-word, basically. It super outdates computers.

      They just happen to sound similar; isn’t that fun?