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Let's imagine that was a transcript of a verbal conversation. How would you pronounce the emoji? Facial expressions?

I've never been afraid to use interpretive dance in my presentations.

What actually happens: see Chinese. One broadly-speaking-unified set of logograms, 200 spoken dialects, of which a handful are widely adopted, and one has governmental primacy.

I've had Chinese lessons and even Chinese people have problems understanding each other for example because of voice and voice emotions are so important. I think Chinese language shouldn't be role model for what IT world should be. :)

Oh, I agree, it's not a role model. I think it stands as an example of possible emergent outcome.

Obviously facial expressions combined with illustrating sound sequences to resolve ambiguities.

- Hello, I believe MEEP.js is the best, but at work we use MOOP.js for its speed and flexibility. Other popular choices are WEEEEE.js, BLEEEH.js and WEEOOHWEEHOOWEEBLUB.js. Hope I’ve helped!

- That’s great! Thanks a lot!

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