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If I happen to be holding my husband’s phone and one of my children texts him, I like to respond back. With an emoji. That instantly mystifies the child who sent the text because, “Dad doesn’t talk in emojis.” Now they’re pretty much on to it and will call me out. Why Are We Talking About Emoji? And yes, “emoji” is the correct way to represent plural emoticons, at least in my world. There are debates, but I use AP Style for work, so I am going with their rationale. It all began with a conversation in the always-fun, always-informative Spin Sucks community. Jill Manty asked why there is an urn emoji. emoji Jill has a point. Her curiosity was piqued when she was searching for a “party” one, didn’t find one, and began going through the alphabet. The conversation wandered from there, and somehow it ended at me agreeing to write an article about emoji. I think the idea was to actually do an entire article consisting of emoji, but that’s easier said than done.
An Experiment In the spirit of an “all-emoji” article, though, let’s start with just one sentence. I’ll share my intent at the end of the article (no cheating please!!). Consider it a Spin Sucks trial balloon. So that you’re not totally hanging in Diabetes Email List the wind and starting from whole cloth, I will tell you this is intended to replicate a title of a fairly recent Spin Sucks article. Not one authored by me, but one that has run here recently. Ready? emoji Thoughts? (Try to figure it out without looking it up!) Evolution of Emoji Emoji have been around for decades, although early incarnations were primitive. According to Wired, the predecessors were emoticons. Letters and symbols make up emoticons, with the first one possibly tracing back to 1982. Emoji are more recent (1999), and they are pictographs, not character/letter combinations. Now fast forward to them becoming Unicode, in 2010, then their addition to the iOS keyboard in .
The race was on! emoji Emoji Are Cute But How Do They Affect Me as a Communicator? Now that they are ubiquitous, they are leaping onto our clothing and into our stomachs (well, not tangibly into our stomachs—keep reading!). Catchy emoji-theme items are proliferating, including clothing and home decor (even a Mr. Poo Night Light!). But can they be used for more than decorating something else? Can they do something? Domino’s would say “yes”! Domino’s Pizza customers with the AnyWare app can order a pizza just by sending the pizza emoji. Whether a customer wants to order using a popular voice-driven smart speaker or with an emoji on Twitter, Domino’s has them covered, says this EConsultancy article. Recently, World Emoji Day was a quick lesson in encouraging successes and embarrassing flops that can occur when brands use emojis. The response to the U.S. Army’s attempt at emoji-based humor was not uniformly saluted—people had a hard time seeing a cute connection in a profession so risky and embroiled in geopolitical angst. Here’s the thread.
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