Neologism: Slackpathy

Mar 18 2017
Tags: chat, communications, graphics, neologisms, work, slack

Slackpathy - noun - The phenomenon where conversations in a Slack channel are carried out using roughly 50% emoji or reaction gifs and 50% written natural language.  The term derives from the hypothesized phenomenon of telepaths sending entire thought-complexes to each other rather than streams of speech.

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