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"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

Seems like a great idea in 2026 to have an unattended buffet room where kids can just go in and touch all the pastries. Notice the middle table now has no pastries.

A great day -- reconnecting with my PhD advisor Dennis Stanton, and my colleague Jang Soo Kim from my days at KAIST in South Korea!
(We did not find a $q$-version of...anything, sadly. 🤔 We'll have to have lunch again sometime...)

Leaving St Gallen from a lovely week at the #EANS summer school & conference. Great to connect with colleagues from all over Europe. Picture is from a joint dinner with Jonathan Drennan and Maggie Langins and the @… crew. Thanks to all for presenting…

A great find for €5. The street merchant tried to sell me a box of 1940s Nazi propaganda magazines in French, too. They were in good condition, but I told him I couldn't give a rat's ass about them.
#Blackadder #TV

Good morning tooters. Have a great #FuckTrump day! Remember to #Boost a tooters toot! Tooters don't let tooters toot into the void. #Mastodon