I got the cutest little book today. I’m going to try using it at the beginning of my journal entries, see if I like it…but it’s called the Dicationary of Fine Distinctions, and its a compilation of words that mean almost the same thing, and in fact are often erroneously used interchangeably, but in truth mean something slightly different from the other. Sounds fun, right?
Nnnnneeeeeerrrrrrddddddd.
The first one is: Emoji vs Emoticon.
Okay, right off the bat, I think this book was probably written for old people, lol…because any self-respecting Millennial knows the difference between an emoji and an emoticon, right? An emoji is the evolution of the emoticon, but they are not the same thing. Let’s see what the dictionary says…
Emoji is: a graphic
Emoticon is: text.
Yeah.
An emoji is literally the picture of a smiley face. An emoticon is a colon next to a parenthesis. “:)” vs “🙂” — hopefully my website doesn’t automatically change the first one.
Bonus content! A “kaomoji” is a more elaborate style of emoticon—like the shrugging smiley face—that originated in Japan. I did not know that. Coooooool.
I was busy as fuuuuuck today. Whew. It was really getting my haircut around lunchtime that made it so busy, but work was also very demanding today. Lots of stuff that needed to be done ASAP. But I got it all done! Whew. Did my writing in the morning, too. Didn’t do the evening, but that was because I needed to get work-work done. It’s okay. Back at it in the morning. The outlining is going surprisingly well.
Night night.