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Does America Need Its Own Emojis?

Silly as they might seem, emojis are shaping modern communication habits. As such, The New York Time’s Damon Darlin thinks America needs its own version of the Japanese-created symbols. “They are essentially a foreign language that we have tried to adapt for the English language and American customs,” Darlin writes. “The Japanese vocabulary is most notable for what it fails to offer Americans … For example, there is no middle-finger hand signal.”
 

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