T-Rex: We have a period for a full stop and a comma for a pause, PLUS the amazing semicolon that kinda walks the line between them both. But could we live our best lives? Could we, perhaps, have...
T-Rex: ...MORE??
T-Rex: Punctuation that captures a deep sigh! Punctuation for a raised eyebrow! Punctuation that, AT LONG LAST, fully captures the experience of the words being spoken by a live speaker! WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO DO THIS. We can invent any punctuation we want.
T-Rex: Why aren't we?
Utahraptor: I mean, we kinda already have!
T-Rex: Explain!
Utahraptor: Emoji! You can drop in a face emoji to literally capture some of this, and get more abstract and representational. Poop emoji! Boat emoji! All APPARENTLY useless, but now all being used to better explain the meaning behind bare words - just like punctuation does!
Narrator: LATER:
T-Rex: TWO QUESTIONS: 1) why are there TWELVE train emoji but NOT ONE for how it feels when a dog looks at you and winks?? And 2):
T-Rex: Who put train nerds in charge of language because I TOTALLY could've told you this was gonna happen
