Nuts and Bolts: freeze peach.

 I've always felt sorry for obsolete craftsmen.  

I mean, what happened to the super-skilled flint-arrow man when bronze came in?

How did the wheelwrights feel about tyres?

What about the writers who have spent their whole lives learning to type exactly what they mean, only to find everybody's text sprouting a measles of emojis?

Still, emojis are interesting, moving as they are from a straightforward representation of a feeling:

 to something more subtle.

I hesitate to describe this new emoji technique as punning because it doesn't contain words, but the idea is the same.

So, what does this mean?

(the fruit is a funny colour, but it's supposed to be a peach).

Do you know? 

If you don't, can you guess? 

A clue: the top emoji is supposed to represent the idea freeze.

Freeze peach.

Freezepeach.

Yes, that's right: free speech.

We've had stuff like

cat call,

French kiss, and

bomb shell

for some time, but freeze peach is to me a new layer of sophistication. Will it develop and grow into something wonderful?

I'm really interested to see.

Thing To Use Today If You Like: an emoji. This word has nothing to do with the word emotion. It was coined in Japan in the 1990s and comes from the Japanese e- which means picture, and moji, which means letter or character.