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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by account42 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:09AM (#45194710)
Pretending that emoticons are a Japanese invention is also a weird kind of historical revisionism.
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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by taejo on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @05:38AM (#45195339)
Emojis, however, are a Japanese invention (related but different from emoticons).

BTW, even the word emoji (from Japanese e = picture, moji = character) is unrelated to the word emoticon.

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