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Researchers recommend digital speech specialists to advise courts on the meanings of emojis

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Researchers recommend digital speech specialists to advise courts on the meanings of emojis

Have you ever received an emoji in an email or text and wondered, "What exactly is that person trying to tell me?"

Lawyers and judges now have to decipher the meaning of all those winky faces, kissy lips and popping champagne emojis as these modern forms of communications increasingly turn up as evidence in court.

Now researchers at Deakin University in Melbourne have come to the rescue they're proposing that experts in digital speech be assigned to courts to help guide the legal fraternity through the modern thicket of emojis and their meanings.

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