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Cherie Lee's avatar

Love this!!!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Thanks Cherie...it's time we came clean about using these cute little symbols! 😂😂

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Nightmaher's avatar

🤪👍💙

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Susan Niemann's avatar

LOL I'm glad you're a member of the Emoji Lovers group! :) 💙

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Jane Deegan's avatar

😃 going to keep using them 😉

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Susan Niemann's avatar

YUP! Me, too! 🤓

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

No way 💩 isn't higher than 98th...

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Susan Niemann's avatar

🤣 let’s help move it up! 😂

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

I can’t live without them. 💯

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Susan Niemann's avatar

They're addicting...and so easy! I was preparing myself for a lot of negative reactions to them, but it turns out they're pretty popular. A benign way to get a point across! 😃 Thanks Gloria!

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

Alas, I am an old, so I use the OG. :-), :-D, :-P, and ;-)

Kids these days got it so damn easy

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Susan Niemann's avatar

GET OFF MY LAWN! 🤣🤣

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

😘

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Brigid Beckman's avatar

😊😂😍❤️❣️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

I love everything about this post!!!! ❤️ ❤️

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Susan Niemann's avatar

YAY! Great minds think alike! THANK YOU Brigid! 🎉 🥰

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Noel's avatar

🐱Happy kitty approved!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Ah yes...the cat emojis are so clever. My brother is a real cat person and he uses them a lot! 😹😸😺🙀

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Andersen's avatar

Now write your Saga in detail about the multiplication table.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Oooh…. Math is not my strength! 😳😂

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Andersen's avatar

When the primary school teacher at the entrance to the school asked me what I would like to become, a carousel started spinning in my head, because I did not understand the landmarks of this life. Other first-graders croaked: - an astronaut. a cop, a doctor, but I did not hear anything about janitors from the crowd, wishes.

We have a song from the group "dick forget it", 1990, they sang about a dreamer there. .

Remembering the words of the devil from the movie - Millennium, I need your time, today I understand that he wants to seize time and reality. . But he will not succeed. . .

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Karen Hall's avatar

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🤗🎂🎉🥂🤗

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Thanks Karen! I appreciate that-all I want for my birthday is a huge win in November!! 🥳💙💙

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G May's avatar

🙂

I’m so used to emoji, that I’m left wondering about tone in text messages.

“Ok” with a 👍 can mean agreement

While “ok” without can mean a LOT of things… some of them really NOT agreement. My dad refuses to use them (73.. old dogs and new tricks), so to get our record straight, I just call him instead.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Yes…. calling your dad in that case is the logical way to go. And you’re right… you have to have some empathy for how the other person might I interpret what you’re trying to say! So picking up the phone and calling will leave no doubt!

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Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

My faves - 🙄😏🤔😳🤬😈🤯😵‍💫😉😊🤗😶🐕🐕🥃🍺🌘🌘🌚🌒🌬🎉🎇🔮🎱🪄🎈

Emoji speak sarcasm fluently.

Happy birthday month !!!

Eat 🎉🎊 and throw 🎂🍰 !!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Good ones! HAHA! Thanks Morgan! 🍺🍺🍺

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Jackie Ralston's avatar

Here's another bit of information about emoji ... the word, though. The plural is "emoji". The Japanese language doesn't change a word to create its plural form; instead, singular versus plural is specified by context. 🙇

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Susan Niemann's avatar

OH WOW! Thats really interesting! Thanks Jackie. I did not know this. ✌️🤓

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Jackie Ralston's avatar

The only reason I know it is because it was drilled into my head almost as much as all the kata I learned in my martial arts dojo! 🤣

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Very cool...I love to learn! 🤩

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JoJene Mills's avatar

Here I sit, having returned from my Zencation with my dear friend, trying to get myself to work on my dissertation when in dings an email inviting me to 💃💃with another cool essay by Susan. I suddenly realize that if I could use emojis, my diss would effing write itself. But no, back to the academic word salad. I’ll take🦉💩😳🥰 over performative Bs words life “reify”, “”rhyzomatic” and “excursus” every day. Thanks chickie, for reminding me how creative humans can be.

😫😫😫😫

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Don't cry! You're doing brilliant work...just dont use emojis!

You know I'm a word geek, so I'll be looking up rhyzomatic, reify, and excursus. 🤣

On Instagram, find Don Huely, The Word of the Day. He is incredible, quirky, and memorable.

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Lisa59's avatar

Emoji's are fun. I can be rather cathartic at times when I'm telling a story. I have to act it out all the parts. 😅 Exclamation points are vital to my existence!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 🍾🍷🍸🍹🍺🍻🥂🥃 Have an awesome day!!!!!! 👌 🥰😍🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Thanks Sister! I see cake and wine and presents in your message! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Lisa59's avatar

You're a Libra. I'm an Aquarius. I blame all my shortcomings on that fact. 🤣

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Listen, we have got to meet someday. What state are you in?

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Lisa59's avatar

I'm in Minnesota. You name the time and place. I'm there. You have an open invitation here.

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Lisa59's avatar

My son-in-law has one of best restaurants in the city. Travail Kitchen and Amusements. Google it. He has a few restaurants. Last year his pizza was voted in the top 25 best pizza in the country. We'll eat well.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Excellent...I'm so glad to know this. First round is on me! 🍷🥂🍺 I just googled from the farm in Missouri to Minneapolis. 7 hours! Not saying you're in that city but I was trying top get some context! Anyway, 7 hours is nothing! OK. We'll see how things go! HUGS!!

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Don Rudy's avatar

Fascinating to watch how languages change over time. Must admit I like them, but I wonder if emojis are part of a trend where people get less skilled at use of words. Check out the difference between things written by uneducated people in the late 19th versus early 21st centuries. Young people today can't write in cursive, wonder if they will be able to write at all in 100years!😜😜

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Well, you make a good point, Don. The digital age has really changed things. Maybe in 100 years, we wont HAVE to write, but we will need to communicate with words... typed or spoken into a device...I dont know. And while I can write in cursive, I find myself printing out things...I have no idea why!?

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Charles Austin's avatar

My cursive is illegible to anyone but me.😂😂

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David Skoglund's avatar

My cursive is illegible even to me!😏

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Susan Niemann's avatar

It's a lot of work for me to do cursive, so I print in block letters! I admire beautiful handwriting though.

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JFurrocious's avatar

I’m a huge emoji user. Also exclamation points, but I often find myself wishing that there was a punctuation mark that’s “in between” an exclamation point and a period. Since there isn’t, I find emojis useful to sort of set the tone of my sentences when I think that ending in a period is too solemn or dull but an exclamation point is too overexcited, lol! 🤷🏻‍♀️ (see?)

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Right...I get that. A symbol that is not too excited but still positive. Let's invent one! 😬

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