article_snippet: If you're of the opinion that text speak and emojis are making us lazy and ruining language, you may want to look away now.
article_snippet: Even usernames have to be comprised of a selection of emoticons.
article_snippet: A study in April last year found that the top trending word, at that time, was emoji.
article_snippet: Emojli, for example, (pictured) only lets users communicate using the popular pictures, and even usernames have to be comprised of a selection of emoticons .
article_snippet: Emoji were originally popular in Japan, and widely used online.
article_snippet: Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji literally means 'picture' (e) + 'letter' (moji).
article_snippet: Icons . are standardised and include some specific to Japanese culture, such as .
article_snippet: flower used to denote 'brilliant homework' or a group of emoji . representing popular foods: ramen noodles, dango, onigiri, Japanese .
article_snippet: emoji character sets have been incorporated into Unicode, allowing emoji character sets .
highlights_snippet: These include 'cool', 'nice', 'damn', 'oh', 'thks' 'lol' and 'lel'
  