Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
So a while ago I got into a discussion with someone on Twitter about whether emojis have syntax. Their original question was this: do emoji have grammar/direction? if english is 👩📸👨 (girl photograp…
Rachael Tatman has an interesting blog post exploring how people decide what order to put emoji in. Excerpt:
As someone who’s studied sign language, my immediate thought was “Of course there’s a directionality to emoji: they encode the spatial relationships of the scene.” This is just fancy linguist talk for: “if there’s a dog eating a hot-dog, and the dog is on the right, you’re going to use 🌭🐕, not 🐕🌭.” But the more I thought about it, the more I began to think that maybe it would be better not to rely on my intuitions in this case. First, because I know American Sign Language and that might be influencing me and, second, because I am pretty gosh-darn dyslexic and I can’t promise that my really excellent ability to flip adjacent characters doesn’t extend to emoji.
So, like any good behavioral scientist, I ran a little experiment. I wanted to know two things.
Does an emoji description of a scene show the way that things are positioned in that scene?
Does the order of emojis tend to be the same as the ordering of those same concepts in an equivalent sentence?
As it turned out, the answers to these questions are actually fairly intertwined, and related to a third thing I hadn’t actually considered while I was putting together my stimuli (but probably should have): whether there was an agent-patient relationship in the photo. […]
To get data, I showed people three pictures and asked them to “pick the emoji sequence that best describes the scene” and then gave them two options that used different orders of the same emoji. Then, once they were done with the emoji part, I asked them to “please type a short sentence to describe each scene”. For all the language data, I just went through and quickly coded the order that the same concepts as were encoded in the emoji showed up.
Examples:
“The dog ate a hot-dog” -> dog hot-dog“
The hot-dog was eaten by the dog” -> hot-dog dog
“A dog eating” -> dog
“The hot-dog was completely devoured” -> hot-dog
So this gave me two parallel data sets: one with emojis and one with language data.
Check out her full experiment and results.
Related: @superlinguo‘s post on how the direction that emoji face influences what you can convey with them.
Americans purchase more than 25 billion doses of acetaminophen each year. Most people pop those pills into their mouth without a second thought. To you, they’re just pills. But to Peter Juzak, they’re gorgeous, abstract works of art. Granted, you need a microscope to see acetaminophen like Juzak sees it after smashing tablets to bits.
SEE MORE: Turns out pain pills look insane under a microscope.
“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.” ― Edvard Munch
Munch was born on this day 153 years ago in Løten, Norway! His 1893 painting The Storm is set in the Norwegian seaside village of Åsgårdstrand, where Munch often spent his summers. It is now on view on our fifth floor.
Incredibly Kind: A Tab For An Animal-Shelter Volunteer Page Has Been Open On This Man’s Browser For 6 Months
Well, if this isn’t the frontrunner for the most inspirational story of the year, it’s pretty darn close.
As a young professional bouncing between long hours in the office and weekends with friends, 27-year-old Brad Conlin would be the last to consider himself a Good Samaritan. However, take a closer look and it’s clear that he’s nothing short of a modern-day superhero: A tab for an animal-shelter volunteer page has been open on his browser for six months.
She was one of the great female protagonists of the late-Renaissance art world. Forgotten in the 18th and 19th centuries, she was rediscovered in the 20th as a feminist icon.
Thirty paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi are on view at Rome’s Palazzo Braschi, in a major new exhibit running through May 7, 2017, that aims to showcase the female artist as a great painter — one of the most talented followers of Caravaggio.
The artist was born in Rome in 1593, daughter of the painter Orazio Gentileschi.
Orazio was a close friend and follower of the fiery Caravaggio — the inventor of the groundbreaking technique of chiaroscuro, light and darkness, that produced a new intensity and stark realism.
Long Seen As Victim, 17th Century Italian Painter Emerges As Feminist Icon
“I was first exposed to ballet at the age of seven when a traveling company came to my church in North Carolina. By the time I was eleven I was practicing six days a week. It became my all-consuming monastic devotion. I eventually made it to the New York City Ballet. I’ve always seen ballet as my way of serving God. I think it’s what God has called me to do. You can call it frivolous, or superficial. But you can stretch that argument to infinity. Why do we have painting? Why do we have architecture? I think it’s all a form of worship. In a secular age the theater becomes the cathedral. There can be such a lack of empathy and collaboration in this world. But in the theater we see beauty and order and harmony modeled for us– two hours at a time. And it took a lot of sacrifice to make that possible.“
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