This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 353.

Three things to keep in mind when using emojies.

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In today's episode, you'll find out how to avoid making a big cultural mistake

when you're in the US and you're texting using emoj today and you Michelle.

I'm doing well, thank you, thank you. Good.

I'm glad to hear it. Yeah, so I wanted to talk about something today.

I was actually, I got an interesting text from somebody that I'm kind of an acquaintance with and they sent me like a weird

emoji.

Well first of all what's an acquaintance what does that word mean let's make sure our

listeners know that yeah

an acquaintance is somebody they're not a stranger and they're not a best friend

somewhere in between right mhm right yeah so like this person that I just kind of

met a couple times they sent me a text message and they had like a winky emoji face in it.

And I thought that was like the weirdest thing and I am just like okay I don't even know you you're sending me like

little pictures I don't know and they I'm like what was the point of that like I don't know I thought

it was really weird it weird weirded you out right?

It weirded me out a little bit. Yeah so anyway it got me thinking about these

emojies right? Do you know what an emoji is Lindsay? I guess it's a kind of

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