LONDON -- If someone asked you to name as many emoji as possible, chances are the Eggplant Emoji would be one of the first to spring to mind. It pops up all the time on social media and in jokey ...

Emoji is the fastest-growing language in history - and it is ruining young people's English skills, research by YouTube has revealed. Nearly everyone the video sharing website asked said they believed ...

“As a visual language emoji has already far eclipsed hieroglyphics, its ancient Egyptian precursor, which took centuries to develop. “Unlike natural languages such as English, emoji is almost ...

Emoji are ruining the English language because young people rely on them to communicate, research by Google has found. Over a third of British adults believe that emoji are to blame for the ...

Last year we saw both the Pope and Kim Kardashian jump on the emoji bandwagon, and Oxford Dictionaries chose the Tears of Joy emoji as the word of the year. A recent Match.com study also found that ...

' Emoji Stats for Bluesky 🦋 ' is a website that compiles the number of times emojis appear across Bluesky and ranks them by language. I thought it would be interesting to see trends in emoji usage by ...

And the worst part is it's not even the best emoji (which we all know is the poo emoji). Although the makers of a dictionary deciding that the word of a year is something that isn't even a word is ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has picked an emoji for the 2015 Word of the Year. It is the first pictograph to win the award. Judges said the emoji – which shows a smiley face crying tears of joy – ...

Few people are as pure and good on Twitter dot com as Cher. As in, the woman who taught us all to believe in life after love. That Cher. Her tweets are consistent beacons of spirited joy, unabashed ...

If you use lots of emoji when messaging your friends, you may be more emotionally intelligent—that is, better able to understand your emotions and those of others. That is the conclusion of an ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This afternoon, a reader emailed to say that he believed I was muddling ...