Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Apple unveils new emoji, including breastfeeding mom
There is such a day. World Emoji Day is celebrated on July 17.
It is a day to celebrate emojis mainly online. There are 2,666 emojis in the Unicode Standard as of June 2017, including some sequences for gender or skin tone, flags, and the components that are used to create keycap, flag, and other sequences.
On that very day, Apple announced quite a few new emojis, including genie, t-rex, yoga master, zebra, elf and even a zombie. These are Apple’s interpretation of the 69 new symbols approved by the Unicode Consortium, which sets the standard for emoji and text characters. Android devices have their own interpretations of these symbols, so they don’t look the same as Apple’s.
How often do you use emoji? Are there more words represented in emojis than texts in your recent messages?
Enjoy reading and thinking how dependent you are and will be on emoji in day-to-day communication.
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