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Hiraeth (n., HEAR-aayth)
Homesickness tinged with grief, a combination of longing, nostalgia, and wistfulness. It's a Welsh word with no direct translation to English (naturally).
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Using emojis in reviews
A two-for-one special today. Let's work backwards.
First, a few months ago, Fusion highlighted how Uber and Facebook were moving to emoji-based rating systems and examined how the companies were deploying them.
Susannah Breslin posted this during a guest stint on Kottke.org, which opened up an interesting discussion with a reader who uses emojis to review his sleep each night. The results look something like this:
emoji --> meaning
beer --> Did I drink alcohol today?
coffee/tea --> Did I consume caffeine today?
rosary + 20 --> Did I meditate for ~20 minutes?
valley + 30 --> Did I spend ~30 minutes outside today?
OFF + 60 --> Did I turn off/avoid electronic screens ~60 minutes before bed?
book + 60 --> Did I read for ~60 minutes before bed?
Before you go changing all your review to emojis, the reader makes a really good point about subjectivity: "I think it would be difficult to pass this data on to someone else and have them objectively understand it without explicit explanations of the emoji's meaning in the label."
EmojisSleepRatingsText, subtextModern communicationWeb 2.0