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Les émojis deviennent des personnages de cinéma
(Emojis become movie characters)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Emojis are now in a new Hollywood movie, and TV also wants to use them in some shows. In the Great Emoji Challenge (TV show), participants need to decode messages written in emoji language.
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Le plus ancien emoji du monde découvert en Turquie. Il a 3 700 ans !
(The oldest emoji in the world discovered in Turkey. It is 3700 years old!)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 27.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Archeologists in Turkey found a pitcher from 200 BC where there was a drawing of a smile. It is probably the oldest smiley in the world!
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Grenouille, thé ou pêche : certains émojis ont une signification cachée
(Frog, tea, or peach: certain emojis have a hidden meaning)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | People use certain emojis to talk about totally different things. For instance, the peach and eggplant emojis are rarely used to talk about fruits and vegetables. The peach emoji is used to represent a butt, and the eggplant is used to represent a penis. The bee emojis has been used by Beyonce's fans, the snake emoji can be used as an insult, the frog and tea emojis have been used as sarcasm, and the key emoji has been used by DJ Khaled's fans.
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Nicolas Loufrani : «Les émojis ont copié le Smiley»
(Nicolas Loufrani : "Emojis have copied the smiley")
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 7.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat
Summary | Nicolas Loufrani (creator of the smiley) talks about the incredible history this new emoji language. Smileys came first and then emojis became very popular thanks to the smartphone revolution. Loufrani explains how his dad created the first smiley, which evolved more as a promotional concept, and how he followed with a more humanized smiley. His smileys were successful; people needed a way to replace words with smileys. Loufrani goes on to talk about popular discourses about language threat; he disagrees with those discourses. Emojis add something to our communication; they make our language richer.
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Des entreprises au militantisme, la communication des émojis
(From companies to militancy, emoji communication)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, marketing
Summary | Emojis are a fully-fledged language and a means of influence that internet users and business companies want to use. Emojis were created in Japan at the end of the 1990s. Now, the Unicode Consortium gets to decide what emojis we can use. Anyone can submit a proposal for a new emoji; in 2015, a Muslim teenage girl launched a campaign for the introduction of a hijab emoji.
Image Description | People sitting and watching a game; two of them are wearing emoji masks.
Image Tags | emojis
«Nous n'avons jamais autant écrit à travers l'histoire de l'humanité»
("We have never written so much through the history of mankind")
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 27.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, grammar, language threat, social media, spelling, word/writing
Summary | Linguist Louise-Amélie Cougnon answers some questions related to digital language and language threat. She talks about social media language and emojis, and claims that we should not worry about the spread of digital language. Also, research does not show a link between digital language use and language impoverishment. However, it seems that pupils have lower spelling and grammar skills than before.
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Pierre Halté : «L'émoji n'est pas un appauvrissement du langage»
(Pierre Halté: "emojis are not impoverishing language")
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, word/writing
Summary | Linguist Pierre Halté talks about the emoji phenomenon. Emojis are not used to compensate a lack of vocabulary. Indeed, they do not replace words, but they replace a gesture, a tone of voice that we would use while speaking. Also, people have always been communicating with images. Furthermore, emoji is not a universal language because of cultural differences between countries. Halté also talks about the difference between emoji and emoticon, the origin of the first emojis, emoji users, and the future of written language.
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L'art d'utiliser les emojis avec prudence au bureau
(Using emojis with caution at work)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | email, emojis
Summary | Emojis are so popular that we can even find them in professional emails. Emojis are used to "humanize" a message, but people should use them with caution (e.g. with your boss or clients). According to Pierre Halté, people think that those who do not want to use emojis are older, but there are young people who refuse to use them in their text messages
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Sur Facebook, de nouveaux boutons pour dire la colère, la tristesse et l'amour
(On Facebook, new buttons to express anger, sadness, and love)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 28.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is going to introduce new reaction buttons to express love, sadness, surprise, and anger. Mark Zuckerberg thought that a dislike button would have been too negative, so he decided to introduce those new reaction buttons.
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Finlande. Emménagez rue des emojis
(Finland: Move to emoji street)
Newspaper | Courrier International
Date | 23.11.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Lojha, in Finland, just approved a few street names for its new business district. Emojikatu and Meemikatu will soon be new street names in Lohja. Literally they mean "Emoji street" and "Meme street". On social networks, Finnish Internet users proposed street names like "lol street" or "Vlog street".
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