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You can now tweet a 🍕 emoji to Domino's in order to initiate a pizza transaction.
Emoji use differs by country. "Canadians lead the charge in their use of money, violence, sports-related, raunchy, and even the poop emoji," says SwiftKey's chief marketing officer, Joe Braidwood.
Americans are second behind Canada in their love of violent emojis, such as guns.
But one thing Americans also really, really love is pizza.
"Pizza was one of the most frequently used [emojis] in the U.S., as well as the chicken drumstick ... and I think it shows you that, versus other nations, you guys have particular food habits," Braidwood says.
Emoji In the Unicode standard at Wikipedia.
Draft Emoji Data at the Unicode Consortium.
💩/10.
[ED NOTE: The &#####; markup for these characters are legit. Are you able to see them, or are you seeing unknown character boxes? What font are you using? -LaminatorX]
(Score: 3, Informative) by stormwyrm on Friday May 15 2015, @06:37AM
It's not a new phenomenon, and appears to have started with the introduction of word processor and computer input methods for Japanese and Chinese in the 1980s. There's actually a word for it in Japanese: wāpuro-baka [jisho.org] (ワープロ馬鹿). Literally meaning "word-processor idiot", it refers to a person whose kanji-writing ability has deteriorated due to over-reliance on the input methods that produce kanji on a word processor or computer.
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.