LAUGHING FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY - Lu

word. It is an emoji, a picture that roughly translates as “laughing with tears of joy.” However, it was not these words that received the award, it was the image itself: Both as a digital entity and as a word, the emoji originates from Japan where, long before the age of smartphones, teenagers had been using them on pagers (Clark, 2015). ................
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