'Selfie', the new word is already the Word of the Year - Sun

‘selfie’, the new word j’s Word of the Year

19deNovembro, 2013

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, according to the editors of the Oxford Dictionaries UK, the Word of the Year 2013: there since 2002 but in last year s, its uses the increased nearly 17,000%. Despite being used mostly by younger universe, several personalities who were surrendered to j ‘selfie’. Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Pope Francisco sos at some examples.

For those who do not know what we are talking about the ‘selfie’ (the Englishman ‘self’, which in Portuguese approaches ‘I’ or ‘own’) concerns the self-portraits taken with telemvel and placed after the circular nainternet, more precisely on social networks.

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most common adolesceentes the most famous actors or singers, the ‘selfie’ j was used even pelaprimeira American lady, quepartilhou Internet umauto-portrait with his first c o, Bo, while Hillary Clinton posted on Twitter a picture next to your daughter Chlesea. As for the Pope Francisco, hardly knew what he was doing when he accepted story take a picture with a group of young Italian Catholics in Baslica of St. Peter, giving rise to the first ‘selfie’ papal circulating on the internet .

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records have been first used in a frum Australian online in 2002, the word ‘selfie’ s truly apblico out during the last year.

selection process, ‘selfie’ defeated other as ‘twerk’ (the movement of dance of sexual carcter had a huge boost after polmica actuation television pop star Miley Cyrus) or ‘showrooming’, which refers to the practice to see the products in a store before buying them online at a lower price.

Word of the Year procuraincidir in choosing a word or melhortraduza expressed that the state of the times. In previous years the choice fell on words like ‘unfriend’ (something in Portuguese approaches ‘no longer friends’) or ‘sudoku’.

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