Expert Linguists Wage War on Anthropomorphic Poo

Andrew West and Michael Everson are two of the top language encoders in the world, experienced linguists—and definitive proof that it's impossible to not sound silly while discussing poo. 

"Will we have a CRYING PILE OF POO next? PILE OF POO WITH TONGUE STICKING OUT? PILE OF POO WITH QUESTION MARKS FOR EYES? PILE OF POO WITH KARAOKE MIC?" Everson wrote in a memo. "CRYING PILE OF POO, PILE OF POO WITH LOOK OF TRIUMPH, PILE OF POO SCREAMING IN FEAR, etc.," West added. BuzzFeed reports there's an emoji war underway at Unicode Consortium—the organization created to maintain standards for encoding alphabets for use online but that has found itself in charge of emojis—and the two typographers are in the s**t, as it were.

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