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Le point à la fin du SMS: un mauvais signe
(A period at the end of a text: a bad sign)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 5.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | abbreviations, misunderstanding, punctuation, spelling, texting, word/writing
Summary | Texting is becoming very popular among younger people who will soon be getting their smartphone transplanted on their hand. The language of texting is "cool", does not necessarily follow traditional rules, uses phonetics and abbreviations. Moreover, to replace the tone of voice and other nonverbal cues that are lacking in writing, people use emoticons. Now, it seems that adding a period at the end of a text can lead to misunderstandings.
Image Description | Photograph of a businessman walking and looking at his phone
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Entreprise cherche traducteur parlant couramment l'emoji
(Company looking for a translator speaking emoji)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, translation
Summary | A translation company based in London (Today Translation) is looking for a an emoji translator. The translator will have to understand and explain misunderstandings related to emoji communication, and establish "trends". Emojis are now as common as numbers and letters. However, they do not mean the same thing everywhere. For example, the BBC claims that the "goodbye emoji" can simply mean "goodbye" in English or French, but in China, it means "you are no longer my friend". Is emoji a new language? Even if they express emotion, they can't be called a language.
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Au Japon, des emojis « lost in translation »
(In Japan, emojis "lost in translation")
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 7.12.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | The 2020 Summer Olympics' organizers are encountering a series of problems. The Japanese government and the Olympic committee want to make sure of the unambiguity of certain emojis before thousands of foreign visitors come to Japan for the Olympics. One symbol seem to be misunderstood: a symbol representing hotsprings is seen as a bowl of hot soup. This reminds us of the fact that emojis do not bear enough information to make it a fully-fledge language.
Image Description | Image of the hotsprings emoji.
Image Tags | emojis
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