A company in London has advertised for an emoji translator in what is thought to be the first such job worldwide. The role will involve explaining cross-cultural misunderstandings in the use of the mini pictures, and compiling a monthly trends report. Agency boss Jurga Zilinskiene said emojis were a "potential growth area" as "inconsistencies" had developed in their use.
Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-38287908
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As the BBC reports emoji being used in crimes, I can see it all now: Emoji experts holed up in Bletchley Park, home to the World War II codebreakers, deciphering the texts of schoolchildren in search of dangerous and subversive communication. Or nefarious organizations changing their emoji definitions weekly to avoid detection.
Will the next Battle of the Bismarck be waged in emoji? Will there be another Alan Turing to crack the emoji code and save us? Will smart phones be banned for their potential use as Enigma machines?
What part of this didn’t we see coming? And when will the movie be coming out?
It's hard to look Hell in the eye.
Good luck. Vive la naïvité. Bla bla blaah. “How wonderful that we have been talking about this”.
文字 (moji)=letter/character
Pretty straightforward.
Pictogram (Zeichen, sign) is the straightforward term for me, as it has always been. Why shall I choose the detour via China to name it?
Why the eye-rolling at coming up with a new name for a new instance of pictographs?
And why describe as a "detour" the name that comes from their place of origin?
Complete with instructions on character input and "design-like" queries: