Itsy-Bitsy Teenie-Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Emoji

Lingua Franca 2018-08-09

Summary:

French dancer Micheline Bernardini modeling an early bikini

I have only recently started using emojis, and I often choose the wrong ones — the other day, for instance, I meant to send an "astonished" face (😲) and instead sent an "embarrassed" face (😳). Circumstances that would cause me to include something like "cute tiger" (🐯) have thus far eluded me.

So I don’t know when I might want to use the female-swimsuit emoji, but I can still appreciate how exercised Florie Hutchinson of Emojination ha...

Link:

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2018/08/09/itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie-yellow-polkadot-emoji/

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Authors:

Lucy Ferriss

Date tagged:

08/09/2018, 16:56

Date published:

08/09/2018, 14:44