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The New Language Kids Use These Days

Sorry Millennials, you are no longer the cool kids

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What seems to be something as innocent as an emoji of a frog (🐸) on an Instagram-post comment, can actually be interpreted as someone being called "ugly." This new form of communication, which uses symbols, codes, icons, or the characters know as "emojis," is the secret language teens use nowadays to turn smiling faces and object drawings into codes that adults cannot comprehend.

An array of more than 1200 icons is available as a keyboard option on almost all phones, including Samsung and iPhones, and is considered the fastest growing language in Britain. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou...

Basic Single Emoji Alternative Meanings

🐸Frog=Ugly 🐶Dog=Bitch 🌺Flower=Drugs 🐷Pig=Cop/police 🚾WC=Woman Crush

💩 Pile of Poop=Bull Shit 🍆Eggplant=Penis 🍑Peach=Ass 👀Eyes=Looking, or Send nudes.


JOHN HOPPERSTAD, a reporter from channel 13 Fox Seattle, originally broke the story about the encrypted language of emojis, warning parents. His story was mocked by many on social media, even by comedians like Stephen Colbert.


However, as much as millennials like to mock baby boomers for their ignorance on technology trends, the truth is, generation Z is using this new language to communicate. There have been cited incidents where teens are exposed using such language. For example, the Virginia police arrested a 12-year-old in 2016 for using a gun, bomb, and knife emoji (🔫💣🔪) on an Instagram post. The meaning behind the symbols, the police thought, meant a threat to the girl's school (http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/02/28/virginia-mid...).

There are some websites, like Emojisaurs.com (http://emojisaurus.com), in which forum discussions are dedicated to the new creation and development of sentences and catch phrases with emojis, no words.

Here Are Some Other Popular Combo Phrases Discovered

🏃 🎳 Running Man + bowling ball = I'm going to hit you

🏃✂ Running Man + scissors = I'm going to hit you

🍆🍑 💧 Eggplant + Peach + Water Drops = Sex

🔪😄 🚿 Knife + Face + Shower = Psycho

💀➡🔥 Skull + Right Arrow + Fire = Die in a Fire

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