 drawing a picture with language to communicate their feelings and hopes and aspirations and fears. Compare that with the written communication of highly educated people today online, and it's like, me happy, smiley face, flag emoji, LMAO. I'm paraphrasing. That's basically the idea. Now, the response to this objection is that an emoji is shorthand. It's just a way of quickly making your emotions or your tone clear to somebody without having to write an essay.