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Emoji quiz: Can you identify these classic children's books?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 24.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Emoji is one of the fastest growing languages in the UK. It is also a visual language that "far eclipsed" hieroglyphics. Book People, an online retailer, created classic children's tales in emojis to see whether people can actually understand books written in emoji.
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Emoji for England, Scotland and Wales flags to be released this year
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 27.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Three emojis representing England, Scotland, and Wales flags will be released. The three flags were the most requested emoji flags according to Emojipedia.
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Redhead emoji finally on the table after campaign for ginger equality
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 20.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | The readhead emoji will be released soon. People had been complaining about the lack of ginger emojis. There will be two possibilities: a single readhead emoji, or custom-hair option to choose "red hair". The campaign to introduced a ginger emoji was launched in Scotland.
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Pizza Hut starts using emoji-only menu - can you read it?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 16.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Pizza Hut released a menu written solely in emoji. For those who are not used to using emoji, reading the menu might be difficult. Pizza Hut had to hire an emoji expert in order to create the menu.
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Emoji grins send as grimaces from different phones - causing confusion
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 13.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, research/study
Summary | The grinning face emoji shows up differently on Apple devices and Android devices, which might cause misunderstandings. The Google emoji looks happy while the Apple one looks "ready to fight". A research also shows that people can interpret the same emoji differently.
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Hijab emoji approved by Unicode
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 11.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | The list of new emoji candidates includes a hijab emoji, a breastfeeding woman, and emojis with beard. A 15-year old teenager from Germany launched a campaign to introduce the hijab emoji
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Is Apple's move to ditch the gun emoji noble or dangerous?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 5.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Apple decided to change the pistol emoji into a water gun emoji. Not everyone is happy about the change. There is also a problem of convention: users of other devices who receive a text message with a water gun emoji will see a gun emoji since Apple is the only one that introduced the water gun emoji.
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Apple, Facebook and Google ban rifle emoji from Olympics update
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 20.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | A new rifle emoji was supposed to be released, but the Unicode Consortium decided not to add it. However, the pistol emoji is still there. The use of gun emojis has led to multiple debates. In France, a man sent his girlfriend a death threat in the form of a pistol emoji. The rifle emoji was supposed to be introduced to represent the Olympic sport.
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These 69 new emoji could be coming to your phone very soon
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 23.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The list of new emoji candidates includes a mermaid, zombie, and vampire emojis.
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Emojis on council tax bills: Council puts crying face on residents' statements
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, law, politeness
Summary | Lambeth citizens are getting emojis on their tax correspondence with their local authorities. To be exact: crying face emojis. One resident tweeted her tax calculations with a crying face emoji next to het balance due. Many find this distasteful since many people struggle to pay their taxes and emojis are just inappropriate for government communication. Emojis are one of the fastest growing languages ever recorded in history and they have surpassed their precursors, Egyptian hieroglyphs, which took centuries to develop.
Image Description | Tweet showing the tax document with emoji.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
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