![]() Good news: We know the secret meanings of emoji. Yet the implications of emoji-their secret meanings-are constantly in flux." ![]() These seemingly infantile cartoons are instantly recognizable, which makes them understandable even across linguistic barriers. New York's cover story this week proclaims, "Smile, You're Speaking Emoji." But are you? Do you understand the difference between the tongue-out emoji and the winking tongue-out emoji? Today's children communicate almost exclusively in these little smileys, and soon the weak emoji-illiterates in our society will be left behind.Īs Adam Sternbergh writes in New York, the "elasticity of meaning is a large part of the appeal and, perhaps, the genius of emoji.
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