#65: Language is for Doing with Thomas Holtgraves
Opinion Science
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The Emoji Wrinkle
Sally Kohn: I wanted to ask about the emoji wrinkle, which I think I first understood what you do in terms of like conveying understanding. So we look at emoji many, this is not our idea, this is other people have written about this that emoji are basically substitutes for this, right? When you're communicating digitally, you lose all that, right? So sarcasm gets missed, all that sort of stuff. And so emoji are in a sense a way. People talk about emoji as communicating emotions, which they do. And as helping disambiguate. That's what we focused on. We find very clearly that it works. It facilitates comprehension, recognition of
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