Seven million years ago, the first ancestors of the human lineage appeared on Earth. Did they already have an established language that allowed them to communicate then? No doubt. However, impossible, ...

A few days ago, I gave an interview to a reporter at The Washington Post. She wanted to know why the peach emoji, a long-time sexting favourite, widely used to designate, how shall we put it nicely, a ...

From pictograms to writing First things first: how does Emoji, a system of pictograms – pictorial glyphs representing a concrete idea – compare to a writing system? Well, in fact, and just like Emoji, ...