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Selfie

posted 8 years ago by lollipop15
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The word "selfie" makes my skin crawl. I wish it was banned.

I did like Tim's face when he took the picture though.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/11519666/Prince-Harry-is-right-selfies-need-to-stop.html

[–] greenbudgie 8 years ago

I was a bit dubious about the word 'selfie' when it first started to be used. I suppose it's a good abbreviation for a self-taken picture and I don't mind it now.

[–] benjamin-twist 8 years ago

It's typical of the British to abbreviate words or phrases so that they become meaningless. So telephone comes just "phone", mobile phone becomes just "mobile" and self-taken picture becomes "selfie". By choosing the adjective and not the noun to describe the item renders it meaningless.

[–] greenbudgie 8 years ago

Traditional parts of speech get deliberately confused now so I don't take so much notice of nouns, adjectives etc. these days. You must admit that self-taken picture is too long-winded to keep uttering.

[–] shoppingaddict-1 8 years ago

Is this just a British thing though? I would have thought it shortening words was an international thing??
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[–] ktotheoc-1 8 years ago

A dumb word for a wonderful photographic tradition!

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[–] Arnie_Partition 8 years ago

In Germany a mobile phone is called a 'Handy', in Chinese it's 'shou ji' which just means 'hand machine'. So how is this a British thing exactly.

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