It so happens that I am obsessed with symbols and semiotics, the signs and signals with which we navigate our various environments, including that of the world wide web and her arachnid offspring, social networks. Similarly am I enamored of all things lingual, language and its turns, puns, limericks, bends and behaviors across different straits. To the end of fashioning myself another tongue with which to explore the rigmarole of metaphors and other signifying sayings, I have created a Facebook application experiment that I hope others will join me in using.

For those who do not yet use Facebook (oh, you eventually will use Facebook or be relegated to fraternal and cultural obscurity, mark my words), my edoheart’s Hearts can be sent with or without comments to one’s friends as gifts, comments or (specific to my project) SYMBOLS of the emotional content in a specific communication/web transmission. If you are on Facebook, play along and unlock all of them. It helps to add the application as a bookmark. This allows for convenient inclusion in conversation. When complete, the list of Edoheart’s Hearts will be:

Sweetheart,
broken-heart,
bleeding heart,
purple heart,
sacred heart,
lioness’ heart,
heart attack,
faint-of-heart,
heart-of-darkness,
tell-tale heart,
heartless,
heart of gold,
hearty,
wearing your heart on your sleeve,
heartstrings,
heartthrob,
heart disease,
heartache,
heartening,
heartfelt,
heartrending,
heart murmur,
heartsick,
and greenheart.

It was fun thinking them up! My Facebook “edoheart’s Hearts” application currently has six hearts. When you send one and it is accepted, you unlock another one. Here they are- please, click on each one to see an accurate rendering of it against a transparent background!!

broken-heart

lioness' heart

purple heart

sacred heart

sweetheart

bleeding-heart