Re: Exact definition of

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue Dec 23 2008 - 15:36:41 CST


On 12/23/2008 12:27 PM, James Kass wrote:
> Kenneth Whistler wrote,
>
>
>> Here's a portion of the note I wrote back then in September, 2007,
>> which clarified the terms "emoji" and "emotikon".
>>
>
> Words such as "balderdash" and "poppycock" have different
> etymologies, yet are interchangeable.
>
Just because those two nonsense terms might be interchangeable, the same
doe not need to hold not true for "emoji" and "emotikon", and as Ken
carefully explained, they are indeed different.

A./



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