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This shows up in other places, too. One of my Slacks has a textji of `groß`, because I enjoy making our German speakers' teeth grind, but you sure can just type

• thaumasiotes 3y ago
  > a textji This is a weird formation; "ji" means text. It's half of the half of "emoji" that means text: 絵文字, 絵 [e, "picture"] 文字 [moji, "character", from 文 "text" + 字 "character"]. https://satwcomic.com/half-human-half-scandinavian https://satwcomic.com/half-human-half-scandinavian
  • eropple 3y ago
    Yes, but "reactji" is also weird and yet people use it for Slack reactions. It's fine.
  • adrianmonk 3y ago
    It's weird, but it's also how language evolves sometimes. Once used in a certain way, words or parts of words take on that meaning. For example, there's an apartment and office building complex on a site near a historic canal and dam. The building development was named after this site. Then in one of the apartments (CORRECTION: offices), a scandalous political event happened. The complex was called Watergate, the scandal was called Watergate too, and now the suffix -gate is used for scandals.
    • dragonwriter 3y ago
      > Then in one of the apartments, a scandalous political event happened. It was one of the offices, not one of the apartments (specifically, it was series of break-ins to and the wiretapping of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee by people working for President Nixon’s re-election committee.)
      • adrianmonk 3y ago
        Oops! I double-checked that detail, made a mental note to say it was an office, and then typed apartment anyway.