However, for those who are trying to monitor and uphold compliance, it’s no laughing matter. “Emoji speak” is exacerbating the complexity of compliance monitoring, which is already an ...

The app, called Afro Emoji, features phrases that are used everyday on the continent. These include “Abeg no vex” (Please, don’t be annoyed), “E make brain” (It makes sense) and “My ...

But no such emoji exists ... And people, rather than ideas, are at the center of emoji-speak. When I searched the emoji for “swim,” the various pictures on offer all implied specific ...

Similarly to the top phrases above, social media users claim this emoji is now being used for everything and no longer communicates the playful term, instead it has been devalued to reflect the ...