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I think the generally accepted meaning of "selfie" has drifted far enough into including "photos of my(self) taken with my phone at my request" that nitpicking
by zimpenfish 4y ago
I think the generally accepted meaning of "selfie" has drifted far enough into including "photos of my(self) taken with my phone at my request" that nitpicking about it has similarly drifted into the "WELL ACHURLY, literally doesn't mean that" school of prescriptivist nonsense.
- yakubin 4y agoThat’s the first time I see “selfie” used in that sense. Even descriptively, I don’t think the word means that.
- mercutio2 4y agoI am willing to allow language to shift. But I have literally (in its original meaning!) never heard anyone but gw99 describe “pictures of myself taken by a bystander” as a selfie. I’ve taken a lot of posed photos of tourists with their own cameras, I don’t see why “the camera is now a phone” would make that phenomenon merge with the specific thing people do with the front facing camera. “Me, posed at destination” seems like a wholly distinct phenomenon to me.
- zimpenfish 4y ago> I have literally (in its original meaning!) never heard anyone Well, the wandering nature of the word has been linguistically noted since at least 2014 by my knowledge[1]. Read more linguist blogs, I guess? [1] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=11205 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=11205
- mercutio2 4y agoFascinating! I wonder what subcultures of Americans use the word this way.