Oxford names emoji as Word of the Year
The body cited Hillary Clinton soliciting feedback in emoji and on-going debates about the skin tone of smiley faces
London: The Oxford Dictionaries on Tuesday has named “Face with tears of joy” emoji as the “Word of the Year”. It, however, may not be a word by the strictest definition – but the emoji, commonly known as “face with tears of joy”, has been named the “Word” of the Year for 2015 by Oxford Dictionaries, The Independent reported.
A breakthrough year for the pictograms first spread by texting teens has been marked by the Oxford Dictionaries’ recognition for a word or expression that “captures the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of that particular year.”
The body cited Hillary Clinton soliciting feedback in emoji and on-going debates about the skin tone of smiley faces, as evidence that “emoji have come to embody a core aspect of living in a digital world that is visually driven, emotionally expressive, and obsessively immediate.”
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