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Emoji Heavy Tweet Hails Murray Wedding

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We at The Arcade are not typically a site for Sports news, unless it has a direct bearing on core interests.  Suffice to say this morning’s tweet by Andy Murray fits the bill.Andy Emoji
Today the British tennis champion is getting married, and he took to Twitter to express the multitude of emotion and activities with which the day to come is imbued.  The Independent’s Dina Rickman writes:
We’ve (roughly) translated it for those who need the help: Sunshine or rain, getting ready, going to the ceremony, dancing, kissing, exchanging rings, signing the register, taking photos, eating, drinking, dancing, some more drinking, enjoying the wedding night and going to sleep.
While there will be disagreements as to how the sentence actually reads in Standard English, or if it can be directly translated into Standard English, one thing is clear: the reactionaries/ doubters/ haters were wrong.
Many thought that Emojis and text-speak would lead to a dumbing down of communication and mass illiteracy.  Of course there were lone voices of dissent, David Crystal most vocally, but there was a received wisdom in the 2000s that held new technical dialects as some sort of verbal blight.  Yet this Tweet is intelligible, in-depth and imaginative. It does everything one would want good communication to do.  While persons like Prof Crystal have long since proved that techno-dialects were nothing to fear, this tweet seems to offer us the final proof.
So, congratulations all round.  For Mr Murray, for Twitter and also for TYT’s Jayar Jackson (who with this tweet has been granted his wish for a full sentence of pure Emojis).
 
 

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