What does apple emoji mean? Portuguese creates free tool to translate symbols used by young people

A Portuguese computer expert has developed a free tool to translate emojis that young people use to communicate with each other.

The translator was designed to help parents of children and adolescents by David Sopas, investigator in computer security resident in Figueira da Foz.

The researcher has developed the Netflix Adolescence -inspired tool, which is being a worldwide success, but also for Dom Friends conversations who have teenage children.

“It was, in part, the Netflix series, which I found fantastic and that gave a new view of the use of emojis, which I had no idea,” David Sopas told Lusa.

The tool, available for free, was designed after the researcher has researched the emojis that young people use in messages and social networks and that adults « have no idea what they serve. »

« An apple, for me, is an apple, » said David Sopas, adding that for young people can serve to show affection, and other meanings through the combination of various emojis in building sentences.

On Wednesday, David Sopas began to share the computer tool, available in English for a greater scope, and confessed surprised by the impact and massive sharing through his networks, namely at international level.

The expert has already had some requests to translate the tool to Portuguese, from the project Miúdossegurosna.net, Tito de Morais, having revealed that the translation tool is open source (Open Source) allowing anyone to change it.

« The only thing I ask is to give me the credits (by authorship). They can translate it, they can improve the format of the page they want, can replicate it in their applications and can make that as they want. It’s free, who wants to go to Github, there is the source code, » said David Sopas.