You've probably already had entire text conversations with your kids or friends using only emoji, and you've probably thrown tantrums that there's no taco.

Well, since emoji have basically replaced English as our preferred form of communication, we're apparently getting a bigger vocabulary.

A quasi-official organization called the "Unicode Consortium" governs Internet standards, and that does include regulating the official set of emoji.

Some of the new ones to watch out for include:

  • a clown face
  • a nauseated face
  • a drooling face
  • a hand holding a camera to take a selfie
  • handshake
  • a hand with fingers crossed
  • a pregnant woman
  • a guy shrugging
  • a man dancing
  • a wilted flower
  • a scooter
  • an avocado
  • a potato
  • BACON
  • a duck
  • an eagle
  • a shark
  • .......but still NO TACO. :(

Apple, Google, and Twitter will add the new ones to their keyboards...you should see them start popping up by this time next year.

 

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