Will we get a sad poop emoji? Well, there's a process
NEW YORK (AP) — We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that's sad?
There's loaf of bread and a croissant. But where's the sliced bagel?
How can our emotional vocabulary be complete without a teddy bear, a lobster, a petri dish or a tooth?
These are the kind of questions that trigger heated debates and verbal bomb tossing — or at least memos with bursts of capital letters — among members of the group burdened with deciding which new emojis make it onto our phones and computer screens each year.
And now more people are getting in on the act.
The Unicode Consortium is tasked with setting the global standard for the icons.