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Online Intercultural Exchange: Save the lost (in translation) with an emoji ;-)

On October 9, 2019, President of the United States, Donald Trump, wrote a letter to the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, expressing concerns and sharing his advice on the situation in Turkey. What version of this letter do you want to read? English? Turkish? I suggest grabbing the one floating around social media. It is simple, fun, and without the need for interpretation. It was written in a universal language: emojis!

Emojis placed to symbolize the message sent from President Donald Trump to the President of the Republic of Turkey

A picture is worth a thousand words. When it comes to communicating with people from different cultures, that picture can be an emotional icon, called an emoticon, or a small pictograph of a face or object, called an emoji.

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