Sometimes you just don t feel like talking — and that s why we have a couple of news items about emoji. First, you know emojis have made it when one of their own is named the word of the year. That s ...

2015 was far more rat emoji than it was tears of laughter emoji This week, in either an excellent or terrible bit of stunt-choosing, the Oxford English Dictionary picked the “crying with laughter” ...

The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year may make some people cry tears of laughter. Or frustration. That's because the Word of the Year is 😂. Not sure how to pronounce it? It's an emoji, the lingua ...

Oxford Dictionaries chose an emoji as its 2015 Word of the Year. Even by Oxford's own definition, it is just not a word: It's an emoticon or a... I love my battered old copy of The Concise Oxford ...

The lexicographers at Oxford Dictionaries have chosen their Word of the Year, and it's likely going to vex some language snobs -- mostly due to the fact that it's not actually a word, in the ...

In a move that would probably cause George Orwell to roll over in his grave, the dictionary maker announced on Monday that this year’s word of the year was the “Face with Tears of Joy” emoji. Emojis ...

You are about to send a text message. Should you express an emotion with words or an emoji? According to Aristotle, we have nine basic emotions: anger, friendship, fear, shame, kindness, pity, ...

Perhaps you remember when you saw your first smartphone and felt a tingle of amazement. It could access the world's libraries, play movies and music, text friends, take pictures — oh, and make phone ...