 Almost as if he believes that there are more important things to talk about, which is obviously absurd. So it's left to me to make the anti-emoji case again, as I have many times in the past. And the case boils down to this. It's very simple. Emojis stifle and dumb down human expression. By communicating in pictures, we are increasingly losing our ability to express ourselves through the written word. This is not entirely something I'm just making up. In fact, there has been actual research done which consistently shows that our vocabulary is shrinking.