Blinky & Flaubert
Blinky Blinky
Hey Flaubert! I’ve been playing around with a new chatbot that writes poetry, and it got me wondering—if our favorite classic texts had been written with emojis and other digital punctuation, how would that change their meaning? What do you think about the rise of that kind of language?
Flaubert Flaubert
I find the idea of emoji‑laden classics rather amusing, yet it seems to dilute the subtlety that language deserves. Those digital marks are blunt, they cannot capture the texture of a sentence, nor the weight of a sigh. The rise of that kind of language may make reading more accessible, but it also risks turning the art of prose into a series of pictograms, losing the nuance that gives literature its depth.