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LONDON -- Emoji aren't just a means of embellishing our messages with poop,Kali Hansa monkeys and salsa dancers. They're a way of expressing our identities.

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But, what if the information desk girl or the unicorn emoji don't represent who you are?

56-year-old Diane Hill -- a grandmother from Coventry, UK -- is fed up of emojis that don't cater for the over-50s, and don't reflect what older people want to do and say.

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She got in touch with the BBC, after it launched an outreach project asking listeners if the media could do more to reflect the lives and people around them.

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Hill complained that there were currently no emoji to reflect the lifestyles of older generations.

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The idea for a range of emoji came out of some embarrassing emoji-related exchanges that Hill had had after injuring her back in a car accident.

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"I have a really bad back and I wanted to tell my friend about it with an emoji that looked like me when I writhed around the around the floor in pain," Hill told Mashable.

"Do you know what, stuff that I wanna say to my friends like "I'm going out shopping to spend the kids' inheritance", or an emoji that lets my kids and grandkids know that they're in big trouble, I can't find an emoji to depict that," Hill continued.

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BBC Coventry and Warwickshire commissioned local artist Chris Oxenbury to design the emoji -- or 'emoldji' as it's been called -- based on Hill's ideas.

The range of emoji includes false teeth falling out, memory pills, aches and pains.

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The designs have been sent off to the Unicode Consortium for consideration in the hope that they will appear on mobile phones and devices across the world in the future.

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