Bet always has risks but there is little chance of losing if you bet that at some point these days of celebration, you or someone in your family has taken their smartphone or tablet, has elongated arm, has put his best smile, alone or in company of others, has taken a picture. That is, did what Anglo-Saxons, with that facility and that quickly they have to baptize almost everything, call selfie.
Today fashions happen so fast you can not say it’s a term not a strictly new phenomenon. According to the prestigious Oxford Dictionary, “selfie” is documented since 2002, an eternity in these voracious times. But his entry into the general language and the media in particular it is recent.
In late 2013 selfie was chosen as word of the year in English by the editors of the Oxford Dictionary, after detecting that use among English speakers had grown exponentially.
Having a Gale “selfies” is coming, in the Foundation of Urgent Spanish got down to work to find alternatives. No part of any crusade against foreign words (what would our language without the many who came to stay for “pillow” a “garage”?), But in an attempt to bring on board the options offered by our language.
And that, in a world where it seems that there is no “corridors” but “runners”, in which there is already “famous” but “celebrities” and in which the players never put ” triplets “but” hat-tricks “, is a task that goes a long way.
Ni or selfie self portrait
In December 2014 the Fundéu BBVA proposed alternatives to “selfie”. The idea was to find existing words in Spanish or create according to the rules that our language often leads to new terms. Hence “Self Portrait” (too-familiar) and “autofoto”.
The months passed and the storm came announced emerged. The actress and Oscar, Ellen de Generes, tweeted one of those pictures in which is accompanied by some of the award winners at the end of the gala. The image became the most retweeted post in the history of the social network. From there come the self-portrait of Barack Obama at the funeral of Mandela, most footballers, actors and singers flooding social networks.
With the news came Gale evidence that “selfie” would not anglicismo be easy to bend. As so often, the British proposed to us a short word and sound entering the ear well and succeeded beyond the borders of their own language. Moreover, their own sound evoked a certain playful aspect of lacking alternatives in Spanish.
And back to think about it. We consult our Advisory Board, press the opinion of our active community on social networks, think about it and understood it was time to use another option that gives the Spanish: to adapt the spelling of our language the term coming out with every intention to stay and live with us
In this case also was a cinch. “selfi” without the final “e” as the utter today Spanish speakers worldwide who have succumbed to its charms.
No regrets
Do we then regret having proposed the alternative “autofoto” and now we focus adaptation “selfi”? Not at all. The two options remain on our site and form a tandem of possibilities that is not uncommon in Spanish: “football” and “football”, “meeting” and “meeting” or “role” and “paper” are respectively adaptations and alternatives “football”, “meeting” and “rôle” that coexist peacefully in our language for years.
So when we started to think for a second time in our nearly 10 years of history which could be word of the year Fundéu BBVA (in 2013 chose “escrache”), “selfi” we seemed like a good candidate
She gathered the characteristics we seek to provide that merely symbolic award. Currently, presence in the media and in conversations on the street and some linguistic intricacies that would have forced us to do what we like. think about the words and make recommendations that work for our followers
In this so ends this story. Sorry if closes a little hastily, but you know what these dates.
Since a while ago my colleagues urging me to stop what I’m doing and I join them. Huddled in a somewhat awkward position and why we often call “face photo”, waiting patiently for me to join selfi last year.
GETTING THE BEST SELFI
Camera the temptation to pull a selfi is to use the front camera phone, which allows you to frame exactly. Here are two problems: this camera is poor quality to the rear and one can go looking at the screen instead of the lens. If you have time to do several tests, it is best to always use the camera back
angle and light. that’s important to care for the angle of the image, using light . Nature and nurture the background behind one
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