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🗓️ 11 May 2022
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Was Drew Barrymore’s “Ever After” the best version of the Cinderella story? We’re joined by lexicographer Jane Solomon to determine if this 90s body glitter filled movie truly embodies this fairy tale!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of sexual innuendo, heart attack, death, slavery, violence, gore, murder, abuse, and child abandonment.
Guest
Jane Solomon is a lexicographer and emoji expert based in Oakland, California. She spends her days working on various projects related to words and emoji. She's currently the Senior Emoji Lexicographer at Emojipedia. She serves on the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee and the Word Panel of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Jane is the author of the children's book The Dictionary of Difficult Words. She has a twin sister who is also a lexicographer. Find her on Twitter at @janesolomon.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirid's podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
0:10.8 | Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
0:14.2 | I'm Amanda. |
0:14.8 | And I'm Julia. |
0:15.7 | In this episode 283, ever after, with guest Jane Solomon. |
0:20.0 | Welcome, Jane. |
0:37.8 | Thanks for having me. It is our pleasure. Thank you so much for being here. And I don't think we've ever done a guest myth movie night before. So I'm very, very excited to have you here. I'm so honored. Before we get started and talk about Ever After as a movie, can you tell our audience a little bit about who you are and what you do? |
0:44.4 | Sure. Yes. So as we established already, my name's Jane Solomon. I am a lexicographer. |
0:50.1 | I'm a children's book author. I'm an emoji expert. Starting with lexicographer, I worked for a bunch of dictionaries over the last, I don't know, I guess it's been 15 years now. I've lost track of time |
0:57.3 | because of the pandemic. Yeah. And so I think about definitions and words a lot. I also wrote a |
1:03.6 | children's book that is a lexicography book. It's called the Dictionary of Difficult Words. And it basically |
1:09.1 | has a bunch of really hard words that kids are unlikely |
1:12.8 | to have encountered, and just it's supposed to be a fun jumping off point for introduction |
1:18.9 | to dictionaries and dictionary skills, and it's highly illustrated, so it's a really fun book. |
1:23.5 | And then the emoji expert part, I am the senior emoji lexicographer at emoji. |
1:30.6 | And so I write emoji definitions there. |
1:34.1 | I write articles about emoji. |
1:35.6 | And actually, you all first got in touch with me because the last article I wrote for |
1:40.5 | Mojopedia was framing emoji as folklore. |
1:45.6 | And then I said, have you ever done an episode about Ever After? And here we are. |
1:51.2 | Incredible. I love that. I feel like I have to ask, and I'm sure this is a question you get probably in every interview, what's your favorite emoji? |
1:57.8 | Oh, okay. So I would say of the new emoji that have recently come out, |
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