Emojis can be a fun and lighthearted way to add some "emotion" to your text messages or emails. Emojis have come a long way; back in the day, all you could really do was send a smiley face, sad face ...

Anyone who’s ever received or sent a text message knows how easily the medium lends itself to misinterpretation. Some people overcompensate for this by spiking their missives with exclamation points.

Emojis are not truly a language, given that they lack a clear set of rules; yet their communicative abilities are strengthened because of this flexibility and uniqueness. Being unbound by linguistic ...