How to Speak Emoji

By Fred Benenson

Text the pizza emoji with a question mark, and you've got dinner sorted out.  Don't know what to use when you're running late, or when you want to organize a fun night out? How to Speak Emoji will help you win at texting. Featuring everyday greetings, pickup lines, workplace expressions, and tried-and-true insults, this book is perfect for the novice user or those looking to test their knowledge.

With a collection of useful and hilarious phrases and a handy dictionary to demonstrate what the emojis really mean, you’ll never feel out of your depth again - or make the embarrassing mistake of putting an eggplant symbol next to a peach.

Includes sections such as everyday greetings, in the workplace, in relationships and asking for help and directions, as well as how to translate song titles and film quotes, this is your complete guide to the bright new world of the emoji.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Release date: Sep 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781449480226

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contents

Introduction

Basic Language Tips

Emoji Dictionary

Emoji Phrasebook

Basic Conversation

Idioms

Food and Drink

Relationships

Pickup Lines

Insults

Nightlife

Famous Quotes

Lyrics

Film and TV Titles

Help and Directions

In the Workplace

Technology

Travel

Medical/Emergency

Weather

Seasonal

The Twelve Days of Christmas

introduction

You are about to embark on a journey to the forefront of human communication in the twenty-first century: emoji. Consider yourself an early adopter.

Emoji originated in Japan and, as such, they’re tightly coupled with the country’s traditions, food, and culture. But since being adopted into Unicode (an effort to standardize how software interprets and stores letters and characters) and integrated into smartphones, they’re now everywhere, used around the world by young and old alike. Sometimes they communicate our feelings when text won’t do, other times we use them to tell stories, and sometimes we just like to test our friends and family with emoji puzzles.

I first discovered emoji in late 2008, when using them required downloading a special Japanese iPhone app to unlock the emoji-only keyboard. I became obsessed with writing full sentences in emoji and sending them to everyone I knew.

I wondered whether I could write a whole story in emoji, but then thought it might be more interesting to translate a book everyone already knew. Pushing the idea to its limit, I