This article casually dismisses the depth and unique utility of body language to ascribe a greater function to emoji than actually exists. It would have been mo

This article casually dismisses the depth and unique utility of body language to ascribe a greater function to emoji than actually exists. It would have been more reasonable just to say "emoji is very widely used in digital communication and expands the vocabulary of digital communication in a unique way." But that's already widely known. What's more interesting to me is the adoption of emoji as a modern ideographic writing system, and how the incidence of multiple connotations of specific emoji mirrors the development of other ideographic writing systems (CJK et al). Emoji, gif keyboards, and general linguistic and sociological developments in digital communication are all interesting. But body language is entirely different, and to conflate the two as the article does is not a good look.