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A company in London has advertised for an emoji translator in what is thought to be the first such job worldwide.
The role will involve explaining cross-cultural misunderstandings in the use of the mini pictures, and compiling a monthly trends report.
Agency boss Jurga Zilinskiene said emojis were a "potential growth area" as "inconsistencies" had developed in their use.
Last year, a UK linguist said emoji was the country's fastest-growing language.
Emojis have been available on Japanese phones since the late 1990s but gained worldwide popularity after 2011, when iPhones started coming with emoji keyboards. They are now widely available on Android phones too.
They differ from emoticons by being coded little pictures rather than collections of punctuation points like
or :'( or ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. (For emoticon newbies, the latter is a shruggie).
But like emoticons, emojis can be used to indicate tone or emotion in messages composed largely of text.
Read more here. (BBC)
The role will involve explaining cross-cultural misunderstandings in the use of the mini pictures, and compiling a monthly trends report.
Agency boss Jurga Zilinskiene said emojis were a "potential growth area" as "inconsistencies" had developed in their use.
Last year, a UK linguist said emoji was the country's fastest-growing language.
Emojis have been available on Japanese phones since the late 1990s but gained worldwide popularity after 2011, when iPhones started coming with emoji keyboards. They are now widely available on Android phones too.
They differ from emoticons by being coded little pictures rather than collections of punctuation points like
or :'( or ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. (For emoticon newbies, the latter is a shruggie).But like emoticons, emojis can be used to indicate tone or emotion in messages composed largely of text.
Read more here. (BBC)
