An emoji used in a post-sex text message sparks ... They all stop and take a second to ponder the image of a cartoon-style gust of air. “What does that mean?” Sara whispers.

But when it comes to punctuating one of those professional, albeit unpretentious messages with a cutesy emoji — staffers in their early 20s have deemed one cheeky cartoon as totally NSFW. “ ...

It’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous. They are a small invasive cartoon army of faces and vehicles and flags and food and symbols trying to topple the millennia-long ...