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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…