Not sure if you saw it this week, but the Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year was announced and, of course, in these crazy times, it was not a word at all.
Yes, in the life and times of all-inclusive confusion, the “word” of the year was actually an emoji. For those of you who are wondering, an emoji is the little image put on social media, email and elsewhere to represent the mood or feelings of the message or messenger.
Be it sarcasm or happiness or sadness or anger, there’s an icon of a small face depicting the feeling, and that’s an emoji.
This year, the “word” of the year was the emoji known as the “Face with tears of joy.” So, technically, the “word” of the year was an image that is actually five words.
Crazy, right?