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You might not be familiar with this but it has become an essential element of communication culture. Especially in Asia where emojis are used extremely effectively to indicate moods and intricacies of communication that cannot be conveyed in just a few words. Emojis help adding nuance where you would otherwise need several sentences or words to say exactly the same thing. It is definitely not all about the LULZ.

And then there is the point of language. How self centered are you to expect that everyone that communicates on the internet needs to be fluent in the language that you happen to speak because you were by born into it?

It's a lyric from a song :)
 
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