It’s no laughing matter.
There are more than 700 of them.
They regularly pop up in emails, text messages, tweets and websites.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop famously conducted an entire interview in emoji.
A British company has created a new type of passcode that uses emoji instead of a four-digit PIN for online banking.
And Penguin Random House has launched the OMG Shakespeare series.
But is emoji really a language?
Well, according to Vyvyan Evans, professor of linguistics at Bangor University in the UK, ‘Emoji is the fastest growing form of language ever, based on its incredible adoption rate and speed of evolution. As a visual language emoji has already eclipsed hieroglyphics, its ancient Egyptian precursor, which took centuries to develop’.
Find out more in this Daily Writing Tips article about Emoji, including why the original Shakespeare still wins, hands down.
| Cinden Lester has more than 25 years’ experience as a professional writer, editor and communications specialist. She worked as a broadcast journalist, in private sector marketing and public relations, and in government communications before establishing her own Canberra-based communications consultancy in 2000.
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