Girl, 12, charged for threatening her school with emojis

[Doug Ewell]

Asmus Freytag wrote:

>> . Well emojis were initially designed to track amotions and form a
>> sort of new language,
>
> E-moji means "picture-character" in Japanese, has nothing to do (at
> first) with emotions.

I wonder if it would help some folks to remember that "mojibake," a term
many of us are familiar with, contains the same root "moji"
("character").

Exercise: consider "emojibake."  😂

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