Thank you for your continued interest in this project. I've seen the reaction that this concept has produced and the inspiration that people have taken from the core ideas I laid out a over a year ago. There are a lot of other projects and things that I try to work on in addition to 😶💬, and as a result I feel it would be better to try a new paradigm for its development.

I am opening this language to the public. Do with it what you will. However, before we undertake the task of building up this language together, I have important lessons to share with you that have been crucial to my development of the language up to this point:

• The golden rule of world order: context to statement, general to specific, topic to comment, actor to action. Deviating from this order will cause confusion, and under the difficult constraints we have, we're striving for simplicity.
• Choose your emoji wisely. There are only so many emoji, and if you want to communicate clearly you should ensure that the characters you pick are the best choices for the meanings you want. If you can't find a good pick in one character, use multiple or build off of what we already have. In the interest of saving the more metaphorically powerful characters for later, use the less evocative or niche characters whenever appropriate.
• Verify that an emoji means what you think it does. You'll find through resources such as Emojipedia that the meanings of a wide range of characters are different from what one might assume. Did you know that the spiral in the symbols section is a cyclone marker? Be familiar with as many emoji as possible, if not all of them, to make good decisions on which to use and how to use them.
• Discuss how things should work. If no one talks about how the language works, we can't build a consensus about it or fix things that are broken.
• Play with what we've built. Testing the limits of phrasing and creating works such as poetry will prove the language beyond its ability to make basic statements.

There are a fair number of you already who have understood the spirit of the language well enough to be knowledgeable in these areas and some who have even partaken in such discussion. Working out the problems in fitting a whole world of meanings into combinations of a thousand pictures is essential to making this language work, and I'm hoping the community will join me in making a full and living emoji language a reality.

— digigon