From when various european influences (maybe Prester John, Marco Polo, and Jesuits oh my) were pressing trade and contact with China there were haphazard attempts to alphabet-ify Chinese, and icon-ify western languages (leading to pinyin and other dubious systems). Anytime one sees “person in suit levitating” 
and-the-like emojis one might wonder if the iconification of western languages was ever abandoned. And/or with 1600 emojis one could likely already do a word to icon mapping. (“Wait… if the poop emoji 
follows after the sauopod emoji 
does that mean it’s the indirect object and takes the emoji dative case?”)
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