And it shows in your digital punctuation. A simple "haha," a well-placed "lol," or a laughing-crying emoji are enough to give you away. It's your little heels clicking on the digital floor ...

Perhaps one of the most iconic internet slang terms is “LOL ... the skull emoji. Others have even adopted “IJBOL“, which is another acronym meaning “I just burst out laughing.” ...

Back in the heady pre-Covid days of 2015, Oxford Dictionaries picked the “face with tears of joy” as its word of the year. It makes sense, when you think about it, that the laugh-cry emoji has ...