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@tschfflr@fediscience.org
2026-07-17 19:57:25

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

Neuroscientists long theorized that bilingual speakers must process different languages with separate patterns of brain activity.
In a new study, however, researchers found that these patterns were more alike than had been expected.
When deciding how to make a word singular or plural, for instance,
bilingual people exhibit strikingly similar brain activity regardless of whether they are speaking in their first or second language.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-06-24 17:52:47

Another all-time-great quote from Randall Munroe:
❝The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote.❞
xkcd.com/3262/