{"id":4158,"date":"2015-07-20T11:53:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T10:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2021-02-04T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:23:03","slug":"language-of-the-week-emoji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/language-of-the-week-emoji\/","title":{"rendered":"Language of the Week: Emoji"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n.videoWrapper {\n  position: relative;\n  padding-bottom: 56.25%; \/* 16:9 *\/\nheight: 0;\nmargin-bottom: 2%;\n}\n.videoWrapper iframe {\n  position: absolute;\n  top: 0;\n  left: 0;\n  width: 100%;\n  height: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photo-1-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photo-1-copy-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"uTalk now has emoji search\" class=\"wp-image-4160\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You may have seen on the <a href=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">uTalk app<\/a> that you can now search for words in any of our languages by using emoji. With emoji becoming the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsbeat\/article\/32793732\/uks-fastest-growing-language-is-emoji\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fastest growing language in Britain<\/a>, we have decided to make it our language of the week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re anything like me, the most frequent way you choose to stay in touch with friends and family is by text messaging. If I think about it, I don\u2019t even know what my ringtone sounds like, and I only answer my phone if I\u2019m expecting an important call, otherwise, everyone that knows me just sends a text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, I overheard this conversation the other day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018So he called me in the middle of the day&nbsp;and&nbsp;I thought, omg, what a freak, why can\u2019t he just text me?<\/em>&#8216;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, I was part of the conversation, but anyway you get the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, sometimes it can be quite challenging to express your exact feelings or tone in a text, and so you risk being misunderstood by the recipient or worse \u2013 come off as too serious when you\u2019re actually joking. So at some point in the past, the techies have come up with this brilliant way to make our text conversations more fun and emotive: emojis!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, some of you may not know what they are and that\u2019s okay &#8211;&nbsp;my boss didn\u2019t know either, until a couple of days ago when our app was updated with this brilliant way of searching for words by using emoji. I admit \u2013 I love emoji! They&#8217;re cute and funny and a great way to interact with your friends without using actual words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photo-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"emoji cupcakes\" class=\"wp-image-4164\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3>Did you know?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The word emoji comes from Japan, with the \u2018e\u2019 meaning picture and \u2018moji\u2019 meaning character or letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are more than 6 billion emoji sent worldwide everyday, with more than half of these being smiley faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some emoji are confusing&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"videoWrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5JdVsbNqYno\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Herman Melville&#8217;s 1851 novel <em>Moby Dick<\/em> has been translated into emoji; the book was released with the title\u00a0<em>Emoji Dick<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many celebrities love emoji, with Roger Federer recently tweeting his whole day in emoji during\u00a0Wimbledon. And in April, Andy Murray tweeted his wedding day in emoji:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"wp-block-quote twitter-tweet\"><p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">\ud83c\udf1e\u2614\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\udc54\ud83d\udc85\ud83d\udc87\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\udc70\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude97\ud83d\udc92\ud83d\udc83\ud83d\udc6b\ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\udc8d\ud83d\udc8f\ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udcdd\ud83c\udfb9\ud83d\udcf7\ud83c\udfa5\ud83d\ude97\ud83c\udf77\ud83c\udf74\ud83c\udf82\ud83c\udf8a\ud83c\udf89\ud83d\udc6f\ud83c\udfb6\ud83c\udfa4\ud83c\udf79\ud83c\udf7b\ud83c\udf77\ud83c\udf7a\ud83c\udf69\ud83c\udf66\ud83c\udf77\ud83c\udf79\ud83c\udf78\ud83c\udf7a\ud83c\udf19\u2764\ud83d\udc95\ud83d\ude18\ud83d\udca4\ud83d\udca4\ud83d\udca4\ud83d\udca4\ud83d\udca4\ud83d\udca4\ud83d\udca4<\/p><p>\u2014 Andy Murray (@andy_murray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andy_murray\/status\/586811114744320000\">April 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Even Australia\u2019s Foreign Affairs minster, Julie Bishop gave the first ever <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/markdistefano\/emoji-plomacy#.ap5pgZ3VQ\" target=\"_blank\">political emoji interview<\/a> on Buzzfeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So go ahead and see which ones have been matched with which <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/app\" target=\"_blank\">uTalk<\/a> words by our brilliant developers! Which is your favourite emoji? We love to hear from you, so please do join in the conversation here on the blog, or on <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/eurotalk\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> or <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurotalk\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ioana and Alex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen on the uTalk app that you can now search for words in any of our languages by using emoji. With emoji becoming the fastest growing language in Britain, we have decided to make it our language of the week! If you\u2019re anything like me, the most frequent way you choose to &#8230; <a title=\"Language of the Week: Emoji\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/language-of-the-week-emoji\/\" aria-label=\"More on Language of the Week: Emoji\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,3],"tags":[1236,1237,1238,50,124,1239,753,556,1240,1241,756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}