You can't expect everyone to have a unified opinion on an adapted work, so some foreign media outlets' malicious misinterpretations appear rather ludicrous, like " jesters."
If a court has to interpret both what the sender meant and how the recipient might have understood it, that's a lot of room for misinterpretation, and that's what makes emojis challenging in a legal sense.
Rather than saying, " Well that's not what I meant, " and having to explain our way out of misinterpretations, we can write clearly to avoid confusion.
However, a common misinterpretation of these figures is that because the most common words are of Germanic origin, it means that everyday English is Germanic.
When a word gets altered or reworked in that way due to a common misinterpretation of the original term or because people mishear the original term, it's sometimes called an eggcorn.