Smartphones ushering in a language of punctuation marks, symbols and animated pictures

By Frank Witsil
  • TECH

  • Sunday, 05 Nov 2017

A man tries out the Animoji feature on the iPhone X during its launch at the Apple store in Singapore November 3, 2017. REUTERS/Edgar Su

Who needs words? 

Americans are now having whole conversations online using just punctuation marks, symbols, and animated pictures, known as GIFs. 

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