Geoffrey Pullum Being An Interjection Summary

In Geoffrey Pullum's article "Being an Interjection", language in the form of symbols is discussed. Indeed, the five new "reaction emojis" Facebook has added in 2016 as a way of responding to a status or image have taken Pullum's interest. According to him, the emojis' lack of grammar or syntax makes them interjections which would reduce the human language to a lesser language, similar to the grunts of animals. Furthermore, Pullum explains that although emojis are used to communicate, they do not necessarily "have anything to do with language" (2016). It is again the lack of grammatical complexity that leaves emojis in themselves unable to form sentences in the human language, as stated by the author.

Assessment
Geoffrey Pullum uses an informal