Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious et Emoticons

Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious

This is an adjective and it is pronounced: ‘ee-logo-fyu-sio-hypo-poku-nu-ri-uss’.

When I first came across it, it meant ‘dubious very good’, as in the object it was describing was ‘good’, though it was ambiguous whether it was so good as to be declared ‘very good’. To apply this to an independent clause, ‘The cheesecake was eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious,’ meaning ‘she was uncertain whether the cheesecake was good or very good’ which shows that even though it is a very long word, it is shorter than the explanation.

However, later definitions of eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious render it decidedly as either ‘good’ or ‘very good’, with both camps strongly disagreeing. This is quite humorous, because it is indeed dubious to the wider community whether or not eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious is good or very good!

Emoticons

Some people are opposed to their use in ‘correct written language’.

Firstly, they are used in electronic mode only, and electronic mode is the spontaneous nature of spoken mode in the medium of written mode. Electronic mode is like a transcript, almost, with emoticons acting as descriptions of their face or general emotions. So electronic mode shouldn’t be judged by the same rules as written language.

Secondly, as emoticons demonstrate emotion, and because punctuation also shows emotion in written mode, I shall argue for the ‘properness’ of emoticons by suggesting that emoticons are punctuation. For example, ‘?’ and ‘!’ show curiosity and excitement respectively, so one of the roles of punctuation is already emotion-depicted.

Also, emoticons are already used like punctuation: ‘oh dear :’( ’. One might object that the sadness was already shown with the ‘oh dear’, but in language, everything is reflective. In French, for example, everything in the sentence becomes negative. When reading a question, one can tell it is a question because of the use of words such as ‘who’, ‘where’ and ‘how’. It is an established part of all languages to use several devices to establish the emotion of the sentence.

Emoticons function like punctuation and are commonly used as punctuation; thus, I conclude that emoticons are punctuations. Further, as punctuation makes for correct language, and emoticons are punctuation, emoticons are correct in language.