Healing right now is an episode of Ologies while finishing the rest of my errands.

(Emojis are SO recent and such a fascinating site of meaning creation and re-creation around the world!)


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Also, I feel vindicated! I always thought 🙏 meant prayer, so I didn't use it even when people told me it also meant high-five. The high-fivers are a niche group globally!

Do you! But there shall be no praise or prayer hands from me.

(I also laughed at the emoji for cucumber showing up chopped on some apps, making for very unintentionally menacing sexting at times. Flirt online with an emoji dictionary on hand, is I think the lesson here! 🙃)

@MLClark

Always laugh when high five is mistaken for praying. 🍆 pretty sure eggplant used for sexting not cucumber.

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@LnzyHou It is, but the example of a cucumber was used to describe variation of associated images across platforms during early emoji development, and the dangers that came out of said variability.

We now all safely use eggplants peaches etc because of early missteps!

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