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Emojis 😊💩🍆

Patented: History of Inventions

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What Is Emoji and How Do They Come About?

The pilot poo goes right back to the very earliest days as a way of communicating via text messaging with pictures. It's interesting, actually, that repat just before we get onto emojis, that repurposing of symbols and words to mean other things. A bit like when I was a kid, you'd write boobs, 8.00, whatever on a calculator and then turn upside down, it would spell boobs. Well, we do all the time. That's how language evolves. Firstly, you communicate with what you've got to hand and then secondly, you play around with it.

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