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We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that's sad? There's a loaf of bread and a croissant. But where's the sliced bagel?
How can our emotional vocabulary be complete without a teddy bear, lobster, a petri dish or a tooth?
These are the kind of questions that trigger heated debates and verbal bond tossing -or at least memos with bursts of capital letters -among the members of the group burdened with deciding which new emojis make it onto our phones and computer screens each year.
And now more people are getting in on the act.
The Unicode Consortium is tasked with setting the global standard for the icons. It's a heady responsibility and it can take years.
That's because, deciding whether a google-eyed turd should express a wider range emotions is not the frivolous undertaking it might appear to be.
Picking the newest additions to our rooster of cartoonish glyphs, from deciding on their appearance to negotiating rules that allow vampires but bar Robert Pattinson's or Dracula likeness, actually has consequences for modern communication.
Not since the printing press has something changed written language as much as emojis have, says Lauren Collister, a scholarly communications librarian at the Univeristy of Pittsburgh.
''Emoji is one way language is growing ,'' she says. ''When it stops growing and adapting, that's when a language dies.''
Growing and adapting doesn't seem like an issue for emojis. The additions for 2017 included gender-neutral characters, a breast feeding woman and woman in a hijab.
For better or worse, the expanding vocabulary has given us an emoji movie, emoji short story contests and books written in emoji.
IN 2015, Oxford Dictionaries declared the ''face with tears of joy'' emoji its word of the year. New York's Museum of Modern art has added the original emoji set to its permanent collection.
Apple's price iPhone X lets you send animojis, animated emojis that mimic your expressions and speak in your voice.
Got an idea for an emoji and are willing to fight for it?
It's not too late to submit one for the class of 2019. As for 2018, stay tuned. We'll know in a few months which ones made the cut.
We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that's sad? There's a loaf of bread and a croissant. But where's the sliced bagel?How can our emotional vocabulary be complete without a teddy bear, lobster, a petri dish or a tooth?
These are the kind of questions that trigger heated debates and verbal bond tossing -or at least memos with bursts of capital letters -among the members of the group burdened with deciding which new emojis make it onto our phones and computer screens each year.
And now more people are getting in on the act.
The Unicode Consortium is tasked with setting the global standard for the icons. It's a heady responsibility and it can take years.
That's because, deciding whether a google-eyed turd should express a wider range emotions is not the frivolous undertaking it might appear to be.
Picking the newest additions to our rooster of cartoonish glyphs, from deciding on their appearance to negotiating rules that allow vampires but bar Robert Pattinson's or Dracula likeness, actually has consequences for modern communication.
Not since the printing press has something changed written language as much as emojis have, says Lauren Collister, a scholarly communications librarian at the Univeristy of Pittsburgh.
''Emoji is one way language is growing ,'' she says. ''When it stops growing and adapting, that's when a language dies.''
Growing and adapting doesn't seem like an issue for emojis. The additions for 2017 included gender-neutral characters, a breast feeding woman and woman in a hijab.
For better or worse, the expanding vocabulary has given us an emoji movie, emoji short story contests and books written in emoji.
IN 2015, Oxford Dictionaries declared the ''face with tears of joy'' emoji its word of the year. New York's Museum of Modern art has added the original emoji set to its permanent collection.
Apple's price iPhone X lets you send animojis, animated emojis that mimic your expressions and speak in your voice.
Got an idea for an emoji and are willing to fight for it?
It's not too late to submit one for the class of 2019. As for 2018, stay tuned. We'll know in a few months which ones made the cut.
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