[huffmsa]

Not in the slightest. I am, however, demonstrating that I was raised by lawyers and writers.

As a point of clarification, I'm all for emoji men and gifs in personal communication. I'm probably the biggest giphy user in any given slack group, but only once I feel comfortable with the other channel participants. One of the first things I do is install the cult of the party parrot emoji pack.

But for any communication with outside parties, or where money is on the table, there is no place for emoji, as they're too imprecise.

[Zak]

Certainly, including emoji in say... a contract negotiation could introduce unwanted ambiguity, but that's absolutely not an argument against using text-based messaging platforms for that purpose. Instead, the fact that misunderstandings could be costly is an argument for using precise language for those kinds of discussions regardless of media.