Emoticons were the pictorial representation of a facial expression by using things like punctuation marks, numbers, and letters. The earliest use of emoticons can be traced all the way back to the ...

New guidance on using punctuation relative to emojis Though rare in formal nonfiction writing, Laur notes the increasing use of emojis in fiction and relevance in trade book publishing. Within a ...

Some languages require different characters and have a different keyboard, so it makes sense that the emoticons they ‘spell out’ have some variation. In Russia, the colon punctuation mark is ...

The world's going to have to figure that out now that Twitter has signaled it will expand its infamous limit to just how many letters, numbers, spaces, punctuation, and emoji you're allowed to fit ...