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# A plural of emoji - linguistically speaking
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2016/01/a-plural-of-emoji-linguistically-speaking/
- Published: 2016-01-07T09:24:24.000Z
- Updated: 2016-01-07T09:25:21.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: emoji, language, linguistics

[The linguistics behind a plural form of “emoji”](http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/01/japanese-and-the-trouble-with-pluralizing-emoji/422967/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

This is a fascinating account of count and non-count nouns – and how they’re assimilated into English:

> An example is “water,” which has no plural form. To count water, you must refer to the amount or container: one bottle of water, two quarts of water, etc. (The word “water” can also be countable in the sense of one serving or one container-ful: give me a water, I bought three waters from the grocery store.)

[*The Atlantic*‘s Notes blog](http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) is doing really great work right now. It’s stepped – intentionally, I suspect – into the void left by Andrew Sullivan’s sorely-missed Dish. Oh, to have Sullivan blogging about Trump…