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🤙 Guess where I live.

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Where????

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Hawaii! 👍🏻

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Sep 30Liked by Susan Niemann

Honoka’a on Hawai’i Island.

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Sep 28Liked by Susan Niemann

Love this!!!

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

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Sep 27Liked by Susan Niemann

🤪👍💙

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

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Sep 27Liked by Susan Niemann

I believe emojis are essential in modern communication. We write in short bursts and don’t have a lot of time to explain the subtleties, our “tone of voice” or “facial expressions”. A smiley face goes a long way toward saying “I’m just busting your chops friend” and avoiding the disaster of some brief snippet being taken the wrong way.

Now take your funny little faces and get tf outta here ya two year-old!!! 😂🥰😊

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LOL! Exactly Jeff! 😂😂😂

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Sep 27Liked by Susan Niemann

😃 going to keep using them 😉

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YUP! Me, too! 🤓

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Sep 27Liked by Susan Niemann

No way 💩 isn't higher than 98th...

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🤣 let’s help move it up! 😂

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I can’t live without them. 💯

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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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Sep 27Liked by Susan Niemann

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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GET OFF MY LAWN! 🤣🤣

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😘

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😊😂😍❤️❣️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

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

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

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Sep 26Liked by Susan Niemann

🐱Happy kitty approved!

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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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Now write your Saga in detail about the multiplication table.

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Oooh…. Math is not my strength! 😳😂

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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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Sep 26Liked by Susan Niemann

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

🤗🎂🎉🥂🤗

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

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Sep 26Liked by Susan Niemann

🙂

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

Emoji speak sarcasm fluently.

Happy birthday month !!!

Eat 🎉🎊 and throw 🎂🍰 !!

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Good ones! HAHA! Thanks Morgan! 🍺🍺🍺

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😂 this so good 😊 Susan. Happy birthday 🥳!!!

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😂😂😂😂 I so look forward to your posts. They’re really good Susan. This one is really good and entertaining

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I really appreciate that… I agonize before I push the send button! 😅

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And I wish I would’ve had this emoji tutorial a few years back when I sent and I’ll advised email calling someone a shit head. Instead of writing it out I could’ve used 💩 😑

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🤣🤣🤣. See? There’s a work around for everything!

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And also cheers 🍻

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Thanks Peter! ❤️🎉✌️

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Sep 26·edited Sep 26Liked by Susan Niemann

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

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Sep 26Liked by Susan Niemann

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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Very cool...I love to learn! 🤩

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Sep 26Liked by Susan Niemann

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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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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