4.8 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2017
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Grey and Brady discuss: emoji revisited and the plurals of words, spoilers revisited, the 280 character upper class, Twitter Halloween, SpaceX Adelaide action, the drama over Brady's lego set resolved... or maybe not, Brady in Las Vegas during the shooting and advertising during tragedy, the (fiction of) the 2017 Nobel prize in physics.
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0:00.0 | When we were suggesting the title of the last episode, I suggested a swarm of emojis or something like that. |
0:07.6 | And you changed my plural emojis to the other plural of emojis, that being emoji. |
0:13.9 | But I think I said emojis during the podcast. So obviously a couple of pedants got onto me and said, |
0:19.8 | oh, actually, technically the plural of emojis is emoji. |
0:24.4 | Is that what they sounded like? |
0:25.9 | That's what they sounded like in my head. |
0:27.6 | Of course. |
0:28.3 | So obviously I went investigating about the plural of emoji and I've read various articles. |
0:33.2 | And I've come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion. |
0:38.4 | You obviously believe the plural of emojis should be emoji. |
0:42.1 | Well, I'm mistaken in thinking that it's a Japanese word. |
0:45.2 | Is that where it comes from? |
0:46.6 | That is correct. |
0:47.6 | But we're not speaking Japanese, of course. |
0:49.2 | We're using it in the English language. |
0:50.8 | But I think when we were talking, I bet I said emojis. |
0:54.4 | I think in regular context, it's very easy to say emojis. |
0:59.4 | I think that's perfectly fine. |
1:01.3 | But perhaps when you are sitting down, you're putting on your formal wear to write a formal |
1:08.8 | title for a podcast. |
1:10.7 | And I think like a title, you want to make sure everything is buttoned up all tight. |
1:14.4 | You have your capitalization all correct. |
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