Kinder Surprise Eggs Warning Message in Emoji Language
The little warning message found inside Kinder Surprise eggs translated into the Emoji Language for Keith Kahn-Harris' "The Babel Message" book project.
Full Text
⚠️
❕📖 ➕ ❕👛
⛓️❌🎲 🧒🧒 ➰ ❌🛄 3️⃣🌷☀️🍂☃️🌷☀️🍂☃️ ➰ 🤌
🤙😋➡️ 🔘 🤙👃➡️ 🧒🧒 🤏🍰🍰
Interlinear Translation
⚠️
warning
Warning
❕📖
IMP-read
➕
and
❕👛
IMP-keep
Read! And keep!
⛓️❌🎲
OBLI-NEG-play
🧒🧒
child-PL[NOM]
➰
REL
❌🛄
NEG-possess[PRS]
3️⃣🌷☀️🍂☃️🌷☀️🍂☃️
three-year-PL[ACC]
➰
REL
🤌
PROX[ACC]
Children who don't have three years must not play with this.
🤙😋➡️
maybe-swallow-FUT
🔘
or
🤙👃➡️
maybe-breathe-FUT
🧒🧒
child-PL[NOM]
🤏🍰🍰
small-part-PL[ACC]
Maybe children will swallow or breathe small parts.
Glossing Abbreviations
| ACC | accusative case |
| FUT | future tense |
| IMP | imperative mood |
| NEG | negation |
| NOM | nominative case |
| OBLI | obligative mood |
| PL | plural number |
| PROX | proximal demonstrative |
| PRS | present tense |
| REL | relative clause |
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