2. The computer program product recited in claim 1 , wherein the second language emotion information is one of text, phrase, punctuation, lexicon or syntax.
1. A computer program product for communicating across channels with emotion preservation, said computer program product comprising: a computer usable storage medium having computer useable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising: computer usable program code to receive a first language communication comprising text marked up with emotion metadata; computer usable program code to translate the emotion metadata into second language emotion metadata specific to a culture of said second language using a set of emotion-to-emotion definitions in an emotion dictionary; computer usable program code to translate the text to second language text; computer usable program code to analyze the second language emotion metadata for second language emotion information; and computer usable program code to combine the second language emotion information with the second language text.