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Will emoji become a new language?
The year 2015 could be called the year of the emoji. They have landed a teenage boy in a police cell and prompted Vladimir Putin’s wrath in Russia, and the loveable smiley faces are even set to come to life in their own Hollywood film. Emoji are now used in around half of every sentence on sites like Instagram, and Facebook looks set to introduce them alongside the famous “like” button as a way of expression your reaction to a post.
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I think it could become closer to a language, maybe like Hanzi or something. One advantage is that emoji don't depend on spoken words. I could send the smile emoji and someone in Mexico could read it as sonreir even though I don't know that Spanish word.