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What is an "idioticon"?

Question #150766. Asked by psnz.
Last updated Mar 09 2024.
Originally posted Mar 09 2024 9:03 PM.

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Though idioticon sounds like it should be an emoji for a stupid face it is actually a dictionary of terms specific to a local culture. It is interesting that idioticon has the same origins as the word idiot which originally meant in Latin "ignorant and uneducated."

link https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idioticon
link https://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-idi1.htm

Mar 09 2024, 9:12 PM
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