Miscellany № 109: the terror of the full stop

First: can I interest you in a periodic table of emoji ? As I wrote last time , I had a lot of fun putting one together and I hope you’ll get a kick out of it too. If you scroll past the table itself, you’ll find copious details on what it is, how it works, and why I put together. The invention of the numeric telephone keypad will be a familiar subject to long-time readers of Shady Characters ,…