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Actually, should the plural be "emoji" or "emojis" ?? 😵‍💫 - Both are used frequently! I think "emoji" reminds us of other loan words that end in "-i" in the plural, like "celli" or "radii" or "tori" or all the pastas. That's why many people feel that "emoji" is plural enough 😅 . But the word is from Japanese, and is called "emoji" in the singular, from "e" = picture and "moji" = character. (In contrast to "emot-icon", the word "emoji" doesn't have anything to do with emotion!) So my vote is for the regular English plural "-s", yielding "emojis" ✅ #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

Like practically all far-right parties, Reform UK want to stop climate action. Perfectly aligned with fossil fuel interests, and could well be related to their murky financing.
Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves
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Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Spaniens Datenschutzaufsicht: Erster Cyberangriff mithilfe eines KI-Agenten

Spaniens Datenschutzaufsicht: Erster Cyberangriff mithilfe eines KI-Agenten
In Spanien wurde ein Cyberangriff gemeldet, bei dem ein KI-Agent Daten verändern und Rechnungen einsehen konnte. Das sei von neuer Qualität.

The TV Academy trims the number of Emmy awards in its primetime telecast on September 14, moving five categories to earlier ceremonies on September 5 and 6 (Michael Schneider/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/emmys-removes-cate…

Emmys Removes Categories From Telecast, Including Two Limited Acting
In a bid to freshen the Emmy telecast, the TV Academy will remove five categories from the primetime ceremony, including two limited acting fields.

Two-thirds of the world’s population will soon have to contend with too little water or poor quality water https://www.earth.com/environment/water-pollution-could-leave-billions-without-enough-clean-water/

Two-thirds of the world’s population will soon have to contend with too little water or poor quality water
Water quality may worsen water scarcity, leaving billions without enough suitable water for homes, farms, factories and power.

POL-CE: Brand eines Gartenpavillons Scharnhorst (ots) - Gestern Abend ist es in Scharnhorst zum Brand eines Gartenpavillons gekommen. Nach bisherigen Erkenntnissen geriet das Holzkonstrukt im Garten eines Grundstücks aus bislang ungeklärter Ursache gegen 17:50 Uhr in Brand. Das ... https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/p…

"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" 😦, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html

Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 14, including mourners attending funeral. The slow motion genocide continues.
https://aje.news/1emeq9

Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 14, including mourners attending funeral
Eight killed and 20 injured in strike on funeral procession for Palestinian killed by Israel earlier in the day.

So sad. Swiss Nestlé and French Auchan and Leroy Merlin stayed in Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and diligently paid taxes there to fund Russia's war efforts for 4 years. And now this...
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/09/18/8053993/

Putin seizes Russian assets of Auchan, Nestlé and Leroy Merlin
Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has signed a decree transferring the Russian assets of Auchan, Nestlé and the former Leroy Merlin chain to a newly established management company.

Is emoji interpretation just a "fun" summer topic, or does emoji misinterpretation ever become serious, like in court discussions? - In face there have been several cases both in North America and Europe where emoji meanings were negotiated in court! I keep a collection of them because it's a nice intersection with my alter ego, the "forensic" linguist. For example, in cases from Canada and Bavaria, judges had to decide whether a thumbs-up 👍 in a chat was meant as a signal of agreement (to a contract or contract amendment), or whether (like the senders argued) it constituted only an acknowledgement of receipt of the message. In both cases, the context was super important - how did the parties interact before, what else was said in the chat, etc. Interesting! #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay