Doc Talk: Figures of speech, Berkshires bounty
By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated December 15, 2020, 7:17 p.m.
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Shigetaka Kurita, the inventor of the emoji, sketches in a scene from The Emoji Story. David Allen/Utopia (Custom credit)
Will emojis, those enigmatic hieroglyphics ubiquitous on the Internet, replace language as we know it? Thatâs one of the questions raised by an expert interviewed in Ian Cheney and Martha Shaneâs whimsical but thoughtful documentary, â
The Emoji Storyâ (the expert says no). At any rate. the cute and sometimes scatological pictographs (the smiling ordure emoji is one of the most popular) have made an impact on how we communicate.