Language Use Quotes

“Sending someone all of the possible birthday party emoji is extra festive: great! But sending someone all of the possible phallic emoji (say, the eggplant and the cucumber and the corncob and the banana) is NOT extra sexxaayy: that’s a weird salad.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“The true emoji question is what billions of people are currently doing with emoji, not what an advertiser or a philosopher thinks they could hypothetically do with them.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language