Q but clearly it is a visual language, and it is a tool for communication. It's not complete. So how did you translate that? I mean, what were some of the trade-offs and decisions you made? And by the way, For the audience, that book was, like, 2009, or that was, like, many years ago. What emoji space were you working off? Did you make them up? Like, what'd you do?
A So I had gotten a text from my college roommate, whose wife is Japanese. He sent me an emoji, and I was like, what is that? They told me you could download, like, a, basically a Japanese app, and it would, like, awaken your iPhone to the emoji keyboard. Like, it just spoke to me in the, like, like, you have to hack the iPhone to get the special keyboard of, like, Japanese icons, and I was like, oh my god, I want this so bad. I was like, this is amazing. I should write a book in emoji. Um, and I was like, oh, that's a lot of work. I don't know if I can write a whole book in emoji. And then I was like, well, maybe I can translate a book in emoji. I was like, okay, what books would work? And I was like, well, it has to be in the public domain because I worked a lot in like the copyright reform space. Nobody's going to just like, let me translate their book into emoji without a lot of effort. For a moment, I thought about the Bible and I was like, that's too obvious. What's like, what's like totally even more inappropriate.
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