Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yu In Chon (left) on Feb. 3 in a ceremony celebrates the fifth Korean Sign Language ...

The Global Language Monitor, a media analytics company that tracks cultural trends, has revealed 2011's most used words ... some of our favourites ... in pictures. The word 'Occupy' topped ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no learning and no translation—making emojis akin to the earlist forms of writing.