South African culinary communication requires regionally specific emojis.
How the mighty have fallen. I used to pride myself on never, ever using emojis. I regarded them as infantilising, toddler-esque signifiers of emotional reduction. The lowest form of lazy. So much so that I got hysterical if my child fiddled with my phone for fear that he might inadvertently press send to someone who would then think that I was dispatching rows of inane smiley faces.
” – literally know your jam but metaphorically to be good at something. At a push one could use a combination of the pre-existing plum and worm emojis to convey the Zulu proverb “” – a beautiful looking fig is full of worms – to warn the gullible not to be too trusting. The bad news is that the Unicode board is made up almost entirely of large tech company representatives: Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Google, Facebook, Salesforce and Netflix. Campaign group Emojination argues that the Unicode panel is “skewed male, white, and engineers. They specialise in encoding. Such a review process certainly is less than ideal for promoting a vibrant visual language used throughout the world”.
Botlhale Baily, chef-patron of Alexandra township’s ultimate kota hot spot for cool people, observes that, “What they did with the arepa and the tamale is inspiring. Imagine what we could do if we had a kota emoji. The majority of our customers are acquired through our online presence, and they tend to take the visuals they see and share them.
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