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Ep. 122: 'Ringer Tech Podcast' With Molly McHugh

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The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Molly McHugh and Kate Knibbs dedicate a full podcast to emoji with help from Fred Benenson, who translated 'Moby Dick' in its entirety into emoji, and internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch, who explains why the icons have become such an important part of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's episode of Channel 33 is brought to you by Seekyk.

0:04.8

Our presenting sponsor and the only fan-friendly app for buying and selling sports and music

0:08.9

tickets.

0:10.2

Other sides have gone back to the same old tactic of showing you a lower price and then

0:13.4

charging huge fees to check out.

0:15.6

But at Seekyk, the price you see is always the price you pay.

0:18.8

With Seekyk, there's no guesswork.

0:20.4

You'll know exactly how much you're paying, where you're sitting, and whether or not you're

0:23.4

getting a good deal, all right from your phone.

0:25.8

So drop your old site and experience buying and selling tickets the way it should be.

0:29.3

To start using Seekyk, download the free Seekyk app or go to Seekyk.com.

0:36.3

Hi, I'm Molly McEw and this is our yet to be named Tech Podcast.

0:48.6

Today, I'm happy to announce you can visit theringer.com and check out all the great content

0:53.3

we have, including a feature I wrote about the absolutely massive custom emoji market.

0:59.0

Related to that, this podcast is all about emoji.

1:02.1

I'll be talking to Fred Benenson, author of EmojiDec.

1:04.8

The goal of the project was an emoji translation of Kevin Bellville's MoodooDec.

1:09.5

We're also talking to Internet-Linguist Gretchen McCollock.

1:12.4

I know the Unicut Consortium is pushing for emoji as the singular and plural.

1:17.2

I don't think we've collectively decided.

1:19.9

The easiest thing to do is just pluralize it the same way that you pluralize any other

1:25.2

word in English.

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