encourages laziness and (5) _________________

destroys languages

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Emoji has become integral to digital communication in the past few decades. Invented in the 1990s in Japan, emoji was originally a collection of 176 symbols. These little pictures that people can send to one another are on every smartphone, social network platform and communication application. Its popularity exploded after Apple included emojis in their latest smartphone in 2011. By 2021, there will be more than 3000 emojis representing many different emotions, people, food, jobs… Emoji has become so important to the way we communicate that the Oxford Dictionary chose the tears-of-joy emoji to be Word of the Year in 2015. Some written phrases can usually be understood with a single emoji. However, not everyone supports the increasing usage of emojis. Critics said that this type of communication made people lazy and it destroyed languages.