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Do Emojis Make It Harder for People to Understand Me?

Professor Dr Surinderpal Kaur, Dean of Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University Malaya | Grace Tan, linguistics student

15-Jul-24 18:00

Do Emojis Make It Harder for People to Understand Me?

Do you love using emojis to convey the emotions behind your words but find that not everyone actually gets what you’re trying to say? Why do people interpret emojis differently? On this episode of Today I Learned we dive into the world of emojis to find out how they’ve evolved as a language and whether the miscommunications are worth the fun.

Image Credit: Domingo Alvarez E, Unsplash

Produced by: Sudais Ferhard

Presented by: Lim Sue Ann, Sudais Ferhad


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