stackyFACTSYou thought it was just a cute abbreviation for emotion? Nope. It’s purely a linguistic coincidence that makes us all look uncultured. In Japanese, 'e' means picture and 'moji' means character. It has nothing to do with the fact that you use a crying face to pretend you're laughing at your boss's terrible jokes.
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