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# I Have a Question About Emoji
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/i-have-a-question-about-emoji/
- Published: 2013-03-22T11:00:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:45:33.000Z
- Description: Did the term shit-eating grin maybe get mistranslated when it got to Japan?
- Author: Curly
- Tags: Comics, And now from Curly …, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

![P1080979](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/03/p1080979.jpg)

Did the term shit-eating grin maybe get mistranslated when it got to Japan? 

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