6 ms·
Pretending that emoticons are a Japanese invention is also a weird kind of historical revisionism.
by account42 1y ago
Pretending that emoticons are a Japanese invention is also a weird kind of historical revisionism.
- taejo 1y agoEmojis, however, are a Japanese invention (related but different from emoticons). BTW, even the word emoji (from Japanese e = picture, moji = character) is unrelated to the word emoticon.