"My Favourite Emojis, Stickers, and Gifs"

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Oh, what emoji will I send my stepson? As a teenager, he is so oversensitive.

If I send a waving hand he might think that I don't want to talk anymore, if I send a smile he might think I think that I am funny. Choices, choices!

Wait let me see. I have 200 emoji’s on my mobile phone. More than enough to quickly type and let him know how I REALLY feel about him forgetting his lunch box at home.

Why on earth did you forget your lunch box at home again?

Steemians, emojis are today's letters! I don't use stickers or gifs. Who knows, I might in future but for now emojis rules my world.

Emojis have seen a meteoric rise in recent years. So bad that language experts are now fighting over whether it should even be recognized as a language or not. I'm sure that if you talk to any teenager they will all agree that emojis are more than symbols, emojis are their language.

According to the Unicode Standard, there were already 3,664 different emoji’s available at the end of September 2021.
I'm sure there must be an Emoji that can explain it...because emojis are like sign language to me. They are a visual way of how I feel. Emojis are the new letters of the alphabet!

Emojis started in 2011 in Japan and now the whole world is using them!

Everyone has a collection of smileys, men, food, hands, you name it and they are using them in most of their messages. I know I do.

Why?

The gestures that an emoji gives can perhaps capture an entire understanding in one word or one picture.

No! It can't be a language! This is according to the website www.oxforddictionaries.com and that is only because it is not spoken!

Vivian Evan, a communication expert thinks otherwise. He writes in his book, "The Emoji Code", published in August 2017, that sign language works for everyone, including the deaf, and it should be recognized as a language.

Do you know that more than 6 billion emojis are exchanged every day... across color, language, and world borders. People understand these picture letters.

Linda Kaye, a psychologist, writes in her article of 06 March 2018 on The British Psychology Society website, "Why psychology needs to start taking emojis seriously" that emojis quickly cross all language boundaries, and with these gestures and pictures, people can understand each other's emotions.

Emojis form words, where words are missing!

I can already hear English teachers "Where is the verb? And the adjective? And no sentence can be without a noun! No way! These emojis cannot be letters of a language. It's just a bunch of meaningless symbols!”

This leads to the real objection to emojis being accepted as a language, where are the grammar and sentence structures?
Without a clear subject and object, one can not communicate or explain difficult concepts.

I beg to differ. I can very easily show my Steemian friends with an emoji how great I think their posts are, the smiles they put on my face, and the appreciation for commenting and supporting my posts.
In fact, I have my computer notepad open with the emojis I use on Steemit from where I just copy and paste.

Umh.. that last one, a special emoji for my friend @disconnect.

Emojis are more than just symbols to me. They are part of my new alphabet!

“Konnichiwa!” Do you understand this? No? What about “Privet”? Still not… umh what about 👋
I understand that emoji is not Japanese or Russian, but that doesn't stop us from using it as a 'visual letter' to say “hello”.

I'll stand by the fact that emojis have a recognized word status. After all, the saying goes; “ A picture speaks a thousand words.”

Emojis speak even more!

It's no longer just a symbol, it's letters that form words that are a language on their own!

Aa! A message from son. Wait, it's emojis! A watch, a car, a crying face, and a little man waiting!
Oo – I understand. He is sorry he was late getting to the car and forgot to take his lunch box. Now he is crying because he is hungry and he wants me to take it to school for him.
He will have to go hungry as this taxi is not going anywhere!

Emojis are letters that make words with gestures, with pictures, and with one picture you can make a sentence with a verb and a noun!

Emojis are the language of today and the grammar of tomorrow!

Emojis are the letters of my new language used on my Steemit path.

All that remains is for me to answer which emojis, stickers, and gifs does SC01 and SC02 often use.

My answer… I only pay attention to messages I receive directly from them and the only emojis I received so far was from SC01 and it was the ones I LOVE the most for my Steemit journey. That smile and those dolphins!

Emojis, my language!

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