Re: [ietf-822] RFC 9078 Reaction: Indicating Summary Reaction to a Message

[Rob Sayre <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 3:08 PM Dave Crocker <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 4/9/2024 2:24 PM, Rob Sayre wrote:
>
> Even the AP updated this one. It took me a while to find a non-paywalled
> reference:
>
> https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1022106915000778754
>
> If the presence of the s had no established usage or were confusing, there
> might be a solid basis for worrying about it, but the s continues to be
> used in public discourse:
>

It's not a hill I would die on, but let me explain the reasoning. I think
it's also the reason for the AP change.

kanji: 漢字
emoji: 絵文字

where 字 means "character". The 漢 in the first means "Han" and the "絵文" in
second means "pictograph" or "picture text". These are some of the few
Japanese things I know, aside from English-Japanese slang like "down desu"
(I'm down, meaning I agree with the plan).

The point here is that "kanjis" is not really written in English, and the
same rules should apply to "emoji", at least as a style point. I agree that
it's not technically wrong according to the dictionary, but I think it
would sound like something extra, akin to "the Google", to many people.

thanks,
Rob