21 years of emoticons .. Could it be the first universal language for humans?

Imran Abdullah

Most Internet users - regardless of the language in which they speak - employ emoticons in social media, text, e-mail, and instant-messaging applications such as Watasab-expressing emotions, places, and meanings in a graphic way.

It is said to be the fastest growing language in the UK. With more than 2,800 transcripts, the popularity of emoticons does not show any sign of retreat, and its worldwide buzz marks the International Day of Expressions on July 17 each year.

While hammering on the keyboards, Emogi constantly replaces the previously used LOL abbreviations, which are so common to the use of political officials, and the American cartoonist Joe Hill tried to re-tell fairy tales through emoticons, While many believe it has already become the world's first universal communication language.

To the extent that some consider it a real language that transcends cultural barriers, it conveys some meanings without a common language. The absence of rules and the limited expressive meanings make it lacking basic language functions that allow for deep and complex communication between people.

Emotional symbols, however, often help us to reduce readable text, fill some of the expression gaps successfully, or give different meanings to spoken words, as well as their ability to convey feelings and feelings.

From Japan to the world
Emotional symbols began in the late 1990s in Japan, as a Japanese company introduced a first set of emoticons to help facilitate electronic communication via messages.

Japanese "manga" signs and street signs were heard to help mobile phone users say more in text messages that are only 250 characters long.

Later, nice shortcuts became very common, and Internet platforms around the world, such as iMessenger, MSN Messenger, and others, developed their own icons over the first decade of the 20th century.

Each platform had its own emoji code, so the smile sent from the iPhone was read as an empty box on email.

In 2010, the language of emoticons became a major step towards their transformation into the world language; when the different platforms agreed on uniform compatibility standards that made emoticons read among themselves, different operating systems - such as Android and Apple devices - were able to share emoji among themselves.

Are Emoticons a Language?
The simple answer is that emoji is not a language; it lacks timelines and trawling, for example, and lacks the syntax rules necessary for complex human communication.

But it has become a kind of universal extension common to all languages, yet remains ineffective independently without a container language, at least until now.

When words and words are combined, they acquire their meaning and context from the text, which is particularly useful in instant messaging applications - such as wattsab - and online chatting when you can not see or hear the speaker's tone and sense of morale. However, emoticons are not infallible Misinterpretation.

Fears
Emotional symbols have come a long way since their inception as a footnote to text messages, and are now used to form almost complete sentences. While some see imoji as an opportunity to free themselves from language constraints and "betrayals," others fear weakening the ability of words to express doubt and ambiguity sometimes.

Research has shown that expressive symbols are misunderstood. In some cases, misunderstandings are related to how emotions are interpreted in their cultural context. When a sender chooses an expressive symbol, he thinks of it in a certain way, but the future may not think in the same way as the sender.

Although the unified code system used by platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and WAASAB uses standard graphics, some other applications and platforms translate expressive bananas in a different way, which may mean a disruption of communication and expression due to emoji.

Different cultures also use emoticons in an unmatched way. For example, some Muslims use a symbol of prayer and use themselves to denote the thanks in Japanese culture.