The petition's goal is simple: To have the American Sign Language (ASL) sign for "I love you" added to a future Unicode emoji set. The open letter atop the petition is directed to the Unicode ...

The emoji for love has been named as the 'Top Word for 2014' following a study by the Global Language Monitor (GLM). The heart-shaped sign was the most-used character in online and written ...

In China, however, this is a symbol for making love (Credit: BBC Future) Equally, in China, the angel emoji, which in the West can denote innocence or having performed a good deed, is used a sign ...

There’s no more universal sign of love than a heart ... “I’m sure there is a secret language to those pink emoji hearts. Which I’ll never figure out,” lamented one Twitter user.

"It's possible that emoji, like other Internet languages, will get absorbed into regular online writing," says Herring. Humans love language, and we love playing with language, and any time we ...

The result was a new Nicaraguan sign language, which is still developing. The birth of a new tongue? Could an emerging “emoji visual language” be developing in a similar way, with actual ...