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Emojis Have Unsettled Grammar Rules

and Why Lawyers Should CareEric Goldman – “A new article by three Dutch researchers sheds some fascinating light on the grammar of emojis, or more precisely, the lack thereof. Their abstract concludes: “while emoji may follow tendencies in their interactions with grammatical structure in multimodal text-emoji productions, they lack grammatical structure on their own.” In other words, when emoji symbols are strung together, we don’t have a reliable way of interpreting their meaning…”

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