Maybe instead of getting products and guessing the prices, you get sentences or scenarios and guess the maxims? (Someone please play this in a linguistics class.)
Three things that I like about this tweet, linguistically:
1. It syntactically integrates the emoji into the sentence into what is, indeed, an adjectival position. This is (currently) a rarer way of using emoji – we more commonly put them at the end of an utterance to indicate how we feel about what comes before, or as an entire utterance to respond to what a previous person said – but if emoji do get linguistically integrated in a systematic fashion, this is what it could look like.
2. The emoji that it uses is already a symbolic (linguistic) representation, since it consists of numbers, albeit in a specific format that has a different meaning from just “100″. If an emoji contains a word, is it language, a picture, or both?
3. Despite the fact that it’s talking about using emoji instead of words, it uses 24 words and only 2 emojis to do so. Emoji aren’t a simple replacement of words for pictures but rather the development of a more complicated system that integrates the two. You could call it 💯.
native speaker of language x: Language x is the hardest language in the world!!!!!
me: ...
me: First of all, what is your definition of "hard"? Is it similarity to other languages? Language x might be easy to learn for speakers of lexically, grammatically and phonetically similar languages. Or do you think it's the number of cases? Tzes has 64. Or do you think it's the number of noun classes? Most varieties of the Fula language have 25. However, grouping languages into levels of complexity is very relative.
