There’s also a new flag the gay rainbow flag and in a time when the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) movement are fighting for equal rights and recognition across the world, this can only be a good thing. For those of you who don’t have an iPhone (why not!) or haven’t updated to the new Apple update of iOS 10, the new operating system has a huge new range of emojis which smash the gender stereotypes previously seen on most emoji platforms workmen and doctors depicted in a male gender and nurses and hairdressers depicted as female. We left the coffee shop agreeing to disagree but all felt the new gender equal emojis were a good thing. I met up with friends this week, all who have teenagers of various ages and we talked about emojis and their relevance. If you’re over forty, like me, you might sporadically use the occasional smiley face or cake emoji when you text, but as I’ve discovered, M and her friends seem to text almost exclusively in emoji and I even heard one of her friends say recently ‘OMG smiley face’ when M told her good news. I’m not talking about teen speak, ‘street’ or slang, but emoji. What’s currently the fastest growing language in the world? I was shocked when I learnt but I promptly updated my iPhone so I could communicate better with M, who’s fluent in this emerging and sometimes confusing language.
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