An adaptation of the Bible according to "our day" and today's technology, is scheduled to be made available in iBooks on Sunday. The book is called Bible Emoji: scripture for the millennial. the book cover has several emoticons, two of which have halos.
The writer says:
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You start with emojis that are really common — for instance, the earth emoji can mean earth, world, or planet.
'Eventually I created an actual translator program with a list of 80 different emoji icons, and 200 corresponding words.
'In addition: I built in some common shorthand — so that "and" became &, and "first" became 1st.'
I've received a lot of tweets, some very nice some very, not nice.
'But it's all worth the goal of making the Bible a little more approachable, to inject some levity, and to get people to look at it, with no particular agenda beyond that.
I don't know how you see the whole situation, but I am amused. Where else do you put this "bible" that also has a translator.
Emojis are emotional, and allow people to express feelings in a visual way within the structure of "normal", written language."
'What's made them so successful, is that they're language-agnostic — they allow you to convey an idea to anyone, regardless of what language they speak.
