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When Is ‘Strawberry Blonde’ Not ‘Strawberry’? When It’s ‘Fionnrua’ (An Introduction to Hair Color in Irish) Posted by róislín on May 31, 2015
(le Róislín) In the last blog post, we looked at the issue of redhead emojis, or the lack thereof. In the past, when we just had simple hand-typed emoticons or basic yellow smileys, hair color wasn’t so much of an issue. But now that we have a wide variety of choices for hair color and…
Emoji Rua? (Irish for ‘a red-haired emoji’) – ach an bhfuil siad ann? Posted by róislín on May 28, 2015
(le Róislín) This spring has seen a flurry of articles about the absence of red-haired emojis, especially now that more diversity than ever is available, with 5 or 6 types of skin tones (toin chnis) and numerous combinations with hair colors (dathanna gruaige). The 5 vs. 6 aspect is mostly thar scóp an bhlag…
If ‘straoiseog’ is ’emoticon,’ then what’s the Irish for ’emoji’? Posted by róislín on May 14, 2015
(le Róislín) Well, the short answer to the title question (“What’s the Irish for ’emoji’?), is pretty straightforward–there doesn’t seem to be an Irish word for “emoji.” Nothing surprising there, since many languages seem to have absorbed the Japanese word ’emoji’ as one of their own. Irish, on the other hand, has come up with…