Adams Media - The Emoji-To-English Dictionary: Your Text-Message Translation Guide

Lets face it: Texting kind of sucks. Theres no easy way to express your tone or your mood, and its very hard to write a volcano is exploding outside my window without using a whole bunch of words. Thats why we have emojis: You can just send a picture of a volcano and use the precious time saved to run away from the lava! Like many great things in the modern world, emojis were brought to us by our friends in Japan. In the late nineties, the cell-phone company NTT DoCoMo sought to attract younger users with fun new text-messaging options. Shigetaka Kurita, one of their designers, ended up developing the emojis we know today. Japanese for picture character, emojis are a set of encoded pictures that can be easily added to text messages.

The idea soon spread outside of Japan, and now users the world over can sprinkle their phone-sex messages with as many eggplants and peaches as they want. While emojis have made texting easier and way more entertaining than ever before, translating text messages isnt always so simple. Does that little smiling poop mean that your friend likes you, or that he hates your guts? And what on earth does a dancing woman have to do with your best buds bladder infection? Luckily, The Emoji-to-English Dictionary is here to decode it all! With this easy-to-understand guide, you can quickly translate all kinds of emoji combinations into helpful English phrases, and you might even pick up a few new ones to sprinkle throughout your text messages or tweets, too. So get ready to uncover and use the most helpfuland hilariousemoji phrases around! After all, using an all-emoji dialect makes us a lot like the ancient Egyptians, and those guys worshiped cats and invented the toothbrush. Who wouldnt want to be like that?

What the hell? GTFO No shit, Sherlock. SOL I cant even. Best thing since sliced bread Not my cup of tea LMAO Nutcase Bad hair day Over the moon Cool story, bro. Beating a dead horse Break a leg! Vegetarian Vegan Cooking for the first time How old are these leftovers? Living off ramen Hungover Hair of the dog Watching cat videos Ghost hunting Gym rat Do you even lift? Catching some zs Dancing like nobodys watching Running like zombies are after me What are you watching? A Christmas Carol Independence Day Planet of the Apes Blade Runner