In the modern age there is no excuse for being tongue-tied. If you're feeling nervous or shy, all you need to is send a little yellow face blowing a kiss and BOSH, you've got yourself a date. But ...

Tongue emoji. Maybe it’s best to save the anatomy lessons for later. ... Nervous smile emoji. This emoji is generally used by someone who knows they’ve made a mistake.

All of which is to say: The 3,000-year-old tilde might want to consider rebranding itself as Invisible Man With Twirled Mustache. I t’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous.

Emoji are the language of our online era, the thumbs-up to a question, the wink to our wit, the peach to our eggplant. They're a splash of color in black and white communication, conveying things ...