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The shibboleth of the Millennial / Gen Z divide is undoubtedly little pictures of faces. Gen Z can keep "emoji" -- "emoticon" forever!
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Also, shibboleth is a really cool word with an interesting history en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibbol...
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Did you name that monstrosity of a monolithic architecture at science warehouse Holly?, it was you wasn’t it 🫵
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I beg your pardon. I'm Gen X, and we were calling them "emoticons" way back when we were typing colon-close-parentheses into email and ICQ. :)
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That too, but "emoticon" sounded cooler, like you were speaking in that 1970s computer font. 😁