“Kurita originally envisioned emojis as a workaround for mobile users to deploy rudimentary graphics despite the chokingly slow connection speeds of the era.”

“The sky was dark purple and stormy, the pollution was chokingly thick.”

“The paste, called naam phrik nuum, was hot but not chokingly so, and had some of the grassy sweetness of a grilled green bell pepper, and one quality that green bell peppers don't have: I couldn't get enough of it.”