Communication enhanced by use of emojis says professor of linguistics

That written communications are enhanced by the use of emojis has been endorsed by a former professor of linguistics at Bangor University, Vyvyan Evans: "“Emojis are actually making us more effective communicators in the digital communicative space because they’re filling in something that’s actually missing . . . the non-verbal cues that tell us how the message should be interpreted.”

He says that people who pooh-pooh emoji use "don't understand how communication works."