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For images where the text reads correctly left to right, but visual cues (like colouration, vertical proximity, or horizontal separation) lead you to try to read it top to bottom.
This is similar to, but distinct from, the more widely known “DontDeadOpenInside” format. In that case, the text reads correctly top to bottom, but visual cues (like colouration, horizontal proximity, or vertical separation) lead you to try to read it left to right.
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Despite containing the phrase "open inside", this is indeed a NoSafetySmokingFirst, as it reads correctly left-to-right, but one's first instinct is to read it top to bottom.
Could also include the magnet as an emoji, so "please ♥ mixer". Poor mixer is lonely.
The singular is emojus.
I believe the root of the word is Japanese, not Greek, so there would be no distinction between singular and plural forms. One emoji, two emoji.
Nope, the Japanese borrowed it from the ancient Greeks, who were inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphs.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emoji
No mention of Greek or Egyptian. Every entry starts with "borrowed from Japanese".
So you actually read what I wrote and thought to yourself "yup, that guy is totally serious?"
I suppose I can't really blame you, given the evidence of a recent election.
My apologies. Both jokes went straight over my head.
They are amusing, now that I read them in a humorous context.
There's an emojus for that
"Please Mixer, don't hurt 'em."