Monday, December 21, 2015

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!! 

HAPPINESS, JOY, HEALTH, FAMILY TIME... 


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AND LOTS OF GOOD WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR 2016

THE WORD OF THE YEAR. Ricard R. (1BATX A)




What do you think of ‘The Word of the Year’ being this :
     

First of all I’ve to say that I didn’t know anything about this ‘Word of the Year’ trend before so I didn’t get shocked when I saw that this year’s word was a pictograph. Well, I got a bit surprised because things didn’t fit me when I saw that the title was ‘Word of the Year’ and it wasn’t a word, but when I understood that this ‘Word of the Year’ thing consisted more or less into picking the most used word of that year I started to understand why.

In the world where we’re nowadays referring to new technologies and teenagers being totally addicted to mobile phones it’s logical that the most used word of the year is an emoji. The only thing that makes me feel curious is why is the ‘crying with tears of joy’ emoji and not the pleased or the typical smile one but anyway, this one means a lot of different things so I can understand why it’s the most used of all of them. This emoji can mean that you found something that the other person said really funny: -…and then Pete fell off hahahah (and then you say)  


It can mean that you’re nervous about something or that you’re not sure about something that makes you nervous: -Hey how did the exams go Mike? –
I really don’t know                                                                                          
It can mean that you’ve said an affectionate insult to somebody that you’re not pissed with: -Do you understand it now?   -No  -You’re so dumb   

(without the emoji it would sound a little bit aggressive). So as I said at the beginning, it’s logical that if a simple pictograph that can express so many different things appears in the social media where most of it is full of photogenic and writer teenagers with insatiable desire to express themselves it’s used with an extreme frequency.


I think that this emoji is used more often than it should because there’re people that write an enormous paragraph filled with this emojis but in real life they have a big round poker face, (maybe not so exaggerated but I think you get the point) but I like that the most used word of this year is this because it says that we’re happy people and that we know how to express ourselves when we feel good about something.

Ricard Rodas  1 Batx A  3/12/2015

THE WORD OF THE YEAR. Alma M. (3 ESO A)

THE WORD OF THE YEAR

I think the word of the year is a joke. I want to say, an emoji cannot be a word,but is original. If I had to choose, a word would be "princess" because when i was little I loved all Disney princessImágenes integradas 1.

The emoji it supposed that is laughing but it's strange because it seems that it's crying. I like to think that it has a special reason to be like that. I don't know, maybe he won the lottery or someone have told him a very good joke. Also I'd would love to put him a name. I like Sammy.

I like emoji's, but they don't have hair and it's curious and I prefer that the colour of their skin will blue and not yellow because I love blueImágenes integradas 2. I use emoji's a lot when I talk with my friends. I don't use this many times because I prefer others.

The Ellen show's make a commentary about this and it was so funny. She comments the matter on an entertaining way but she have reason because, how can you put an emoji on the dictionary? I don't understand, it's impossible. Another think I don't understand it's why this emoji? There's a lots of emoji's :Imágenes integradas 3Imágenes integradas 5,Imágenes integradas 6, etc. I will make a content for choose the emoji.

Definitely, I choose that:
Imágenes integradas 7 it's super cute. It's the coolest.


ALMA MONTESINOS
3 ESO A


Wednesday, December 9, 2015

THE WORD OF THE YEAR. Arnau M. (2 BATX B)


Fort he first time ever the Word of the year is not a Word, instead of it the winner was a pictograph, for being more exactly the image called “Face with Tears of Joy”, in my case used to express something that makes me laugh so badly.


In my point of view, images can be good or dangerous depending on the situation. For example, sometimes there are people who just answer with images or that text fake frame of mind making you think that he is alright with you when he is not.

But on the other hand, images are so cool to express yourself. Because sometimes you don't want to text too much and you use them as a way to express what you want to do. A good example could be the Word of the year. I also believe that this is not going to be the first year that we see an image as the winner, because, like the stats show, the percentage of use of them is increasing really fast.


Finally, I think that we should be careful about using them all the time, because we don't have to forget that the best way to express yourself is still texting and talking.

In conclusion I think that we have to be grateful with the people who invented emojis because they are a fast way to talk to people, but without foregetting that is also an easy way to be misunderstood.

ARNAU MERINO
2 BATX B


THE WORD OF THE YEAR. Marc S. (3 ESO B)

WORD OF THE YEAR EMOJI


Ladies and gentlemen, the word of the year 2015 for Oxford University is… AN EMOJI! Yes I did the same face that you are doing now, “Is that a joke?”.

I think it is just a kind of joke that Oxford is doing for us to see they aren’t the boring professors that we all think they are. It is the first year that this award goes to something that is not a word. And you will think: “and now we will find this emoji on Oxford dictionaries?” NO. I really don’t understand that, they say the word of the year an emoji, and later they don’t put it in the dictionaries, like saying: “It is not a word in true. But it is very used and nobody in whatsapp says: laugh and cry, they write this emoji.

I really would like to talk to the man who made it happens. I am sure it is really a very friendly person, who said: “I really want to do something different today”, and that was the consequence.


I am really anxious to see the word of the next year, maybe it is a cough because the man who I talked about before becomes ill to work. But we will see…


MARC SILVENTE
3 ESO B


Tuesday, December 8, 2015

THE WORD OF THE YEAR. Esther R. (1 BATX B)

The word of this year

Every year the “Oxford Dictionaries” chooses the word that has been the most used during the year. This 2015 something different has happened.

During this decade one way of communication between humans has become more popular; I’m talking about texting. We text using different apps but in the last few years someone has created the emojis. Almost everybody thinks that they are extremely useful, even more, there are some people that don’t text with letters but rather with emojis! So this is the reason why this year’s word is an emoji.

I use emojis when I text but not always. Habitually I try to do note voices because the person who I’m talking to can understand how I’m expressing myself.


My favourite emojis are: the word of the year (of course I use it in every conversation) and I really love the cute face which is smiling and its face is blushed.


ESTHER RODRÍGUEZ
1 BATX B


Sunday, December 6, 2015

THE WORD OF THE YEAR. Clara U. (2 BATX A)

The word of the year

What do we use words for? We use them to express our feelings, to be able to communicate necessary information to others, to ask what we need to know… Words make our life better and easier. What does it really means that the most used word is an emoji? Does that emoji express more or less than words?

In my opinion, the fact of that the most used word is not a word is clearly a sign of how our culture is. We are becoming the culture of the image, the impact, the visual, the immediacy. Our lives are becoming a spiral of trivial issues that are not interesting or expressive at all. We can be texting for hours but we don't really write anything at all. If we look at a Whatsapp or Telegram conversation we can easily find that we write short number of words that are repeated constantly. That is something that doesn't really help us on how to write when we're at school and that removes us time that we could be using for creating a novel. We lose the knowledge of synonyms and long or hard expressions and we replace them for an image that could say something similar much faster.

The use of images can be very enriching because it can improve the comprehension of our message but in abuse it results in an empty content. Emojis were created to avoid confusion on our mood or in how we should pronounce the messages we read, although they're becoming the whole message.


In conclusion, I found that the fact of that the word of the year is an emoji should make us analyze what we say and which is the way we use to say it. And last but not least… why does Oxford know the words we use? It's a little alarming that we're so controlled!


CLARA URQUIZA
2 BATX A

Saturday, December 5, 2015

THE WORD OF THE YEAR. Pol S. (1 BATX B)

THE WORD OF THE YEAR 2015


-Seriously? An emoji?- That was my first reaction when I discovered that the Oxford dictionary said that this year’s word was the emoji “Tears of joy”. First of all, an emoji is even not a word, so that’s why you get so shocked at the beginnig. But if you think about this, it makes sense because this maybe one of the most common ways to express happiness, joy, laughs... Nowadays we (or at least me) are constantly using emojis and in a lot of keyboards I’m sure this especially is the most used. This emoji connects with the reality of new technologies, texting platforms and social networks of the last years. It has the part of an actually “word” because this emoji five years before didn’t exist. Even thought is quite strange that a picture wins this high acknowledgment, having in mind that Oxford is the most accurate dictionary in English.


The “Face with Tears of Joy” is one of my favorite emojis in the whole emoji universe. I used it very often, at least twice a day. For me, is the best and funniest emoji because it can express so many things depending on the context of the conversation. You can use it for a sarcastic meaning or maybe for and awkward conversation when you have nothing to say. With it you can laugh, or just be happy, or even be crying of joy. It has so many uses...Honestly; I don’t know what would I do if my keyboard of my smart phone did not have this emoji. With it I don’t have to write much and it saves me a lot of time at the end of the day.


I believe that these years word is correctly chosen. A lot of people may not think as I do but this year’s word does make a difference, and that is why the award is fair. No one knew that there was a Word of the Year selected by the Oxford dictionary, and with this surprising first place they have become trending topic (with this whole emoji thing I’ve become more 2.0). Also I see why they have chosen the Face with Tears of Joy; because this year with all the tragedies, wars, and more things that have happened, we still have used this little piece of happiness to say each to the other funny things or to express joy. It’s almost in our vocabulary. And it also reflects that the language is in a constant change, and that in less than 10 years we speak very different or we use words that in that time did not exist. For example 3 years ago if I had said to somebody in the street –Hey! Can we take a selfie- we or she would though that I was crazy and that selfie didn’t exist. Right now I’m writing this composition and the corrector is marking emoji and selfie as unknown words and they might be one of the most used words in the entire world. So before we criticize the jury of this year’s word I think we should try to understand the actual world situation, and notice that this election is work of a genius!  



POL SANUY
1 BATX B

THE WORD OF THE YEAR. Sebastián G. (1 BATX B)

The word of the year:

This year the Oxford dictionary chooses an emoji for the word of the year. It’s the famous emoji “The face with tears of Joy”.

In my opinion it was a really useful emoji because of the meaning, I’m a joker and when I do a joke in “WhatsApp” this emoji is essential to make the joke better. Also when you are laughing for something or someone this is a useful emoji.

I agree that it’s the word of the year because I’m not the only one that uses it frequently so if you count all the people in my course (80 people approximately) all of them use the emoji frequently so if you also count the people in ESO or in 2nd BTX there are a lot of people that use it, but if you count all the people in Spain, that a very big percentage have a mobile phone with “WhatsApp” or something like it, there is a million people that use it; so now imagine how many people in the world use with frequency this emoji, what a shame that we don’t have time for that.


I do not agree with people who say that young people are destroying the culture with things like that because I reckon that things like emojis or WhatsApp or Gmail or Facebook or etc… make the communication more easy, I believe in a future with a big net of easy communications with all people in the world. 

SEBASTIAN GONZÁLEZ
1st BATX B

Thursday, December 3, 2015

THE WORD OF THE YEAR. Kevin E. ( 1BATX B)

FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY!


I agree  that  the  word more used in the world is an emoji.

I agree because I have calculated the average of the times that I use the face with tears of joy in my whatsApp  and my Facebook chat, and the result was that I use this emoji in all the week approximately one hundred times.

I think that it is so important because I saw that in a lot chats always I only put a lot of emojis and the other person can understand me, and he does the same and we can  keep an original,funny and very interesting conversation only for example with a lot of hearts,animals,symbols...

Who uses all  these new words are majority the young people and I think that the other little part,who use these words are the adults and  all the people in general.

All of this is because now we are in a world that all the persons, even old people and the babies use the internet and all the technology in an usual and very curious way, mostly  for example when I see  my grandparents and my  cousins using the emoji in  the ipad when they are chatting in  facebook, although  they do not know their significate.

Finally I want to confes that I like to that there exist these things because I like to see all that people using the new technology and all these things that are new for them because it is so funny.

KEVIN ESPAÑA
1 BATX B

THE WORD OF THE YEAR. Gemma T. (1 BATX A)

WORD OF THE YEAR 2015 IS...  

For the first time ever the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is a pictograph and not a word. This one is called the “Face with Tears of Joy”.

Emojis are international because everybody can understand them. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know a language. Emojis are little simple pictures that they are so easy to know them. So this is why one emoji has been the word of 2015 because lots of people use it around the world.  Specially the “Face with Tears of Joy” because it’s a happy face with tears in it eyes. It means that you are crying for the laughing. And who doesn’t like this?  One of the most important things in life is being happy. It’s an objective of the majority of people. For this reason it has been so popular.

Personally I use the “Face with tears of Joy” a lot. I think it’s the emoji that I use more often because I love laughing and having a good time and if you use it it’s like you feel so much better.

Firstly it was just used by teenagers and young people but nowadays it doesn’t matter the age. It's used  by everyone.

People who have chosen this emoji for the word of the year said that it has been triplicated since last year, 2014.  They chose the word for how popular it is.


For example two years ago the most popular word was “selfie”. Selfie as same as the emoji of this year are words that they are quiet new and really popular in the society. 


GEMMA TRESCALS
1 BATX A

THE WORD OF THE YEAR Gerard F. (2 BATX A)

THE WORD OF THE YEAR

Lately these days Oxford Dictionaries announced which was the most used Word in the year 2015. It was a bit surprising because it hasn’t got a current translation to any language but everyone around the world knows its meaning, it is an emoji that could be described as ‘Face with tears of joy’.

From my point of view it is weird to see something that it is not a word being named ‘The Word Of The Year’, but Oxford Dictionaries have done it in order to show the increasing popularity of emojis. Although when we use this emoji in apps like Whatsapp we aren’t laughing at all we need to send it just to let the other person know that something is funny for us. I got to recognize that I usually use this emoji because I am too lazy to write ‘jajajaj’ or something like this, so many times that is the reason why I send it, but when something makes laugh so much that I am going to tear of joy I send ‘jajajaj and then the emoji’.

Everyone has felt a bit astonished about this decision but in my opinion it is much better than the word that runner up was ‘Lumbersexual’ that means someone who wears work boots, a plaid shirt and has a scruffy hair. So as this word doesn’t define me I´d rather have the funny emoji that I use almost every day.

I also find really funny the way Ellen DeGeneres tried to verbalize how this emoji has to be pronounced. And in my opinion I think Oxford Dictionaries have done a really nice choice because it is not a traditional word and now that our world is being modernized each day this is one way to show us how our vocabulary is changing. But this also has something against and it is that the election of something that is not a traditional word also makes me thing that nowadays we don’t talk as much as we did before and we are losing really nice vocabulary that has been changed for emojis or vulgarisms that make our vocabulary much easier.

In conclusion, even though I find this Word Of The Year really interesting I think we shouldn’t forget our nice vocabulary that is being replaced for expressions that are not really correct.


Gerard Ferreiro
2 BATX A


THE WORD OF THE YEAR. David A. (2BATX B)

THE WORD OF THE YEAR

It’s a truth universally acknowledged, that technology goes on every day. Actually, it’s surrounding us right now: computers, cell phones or cameras. All this kind of media communication is becoming more popular, and it’s not strange or even surprising that Oxford dictionary said that the word of the year is an emoji.

The Oxford dictionary says that word means: A single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing. If we consider this definition, we reached the conclusion that any kind of symbol understandable can be a word.

To get to the point, years ago, people used to write in their own hand writing and the lucky ones with a writing machine, so there wasn’t any emoji or symbol different as the ones that already people known. So what has happened to start using new symbols such as emojis? As I said before, the world is going on, and it’s okay indeed. The arrival of new technology helps us to carry out very important scientific advances. It’s not only becoming more technology-advanced, but it’s also developing other fields such as parlance, oratory or even poetry, there’re many poets that talk about “technopoetry”. They include emojis in their verses, performing a new way to read poetry. Notwithstanding, there’re many linguists that believe that updating language that way, with symbols such as emojis, makes it worse. As far as I’m concerned, I don’t agree with this, because to survive, we must be able to adapt, and happens the same with language, if anyone didn’t update it, it would disappear over time.  The only way to keep it alive is creating new words and updating it at the new era.

I believe the Oxford dictionary has made such a good job considering an emoji the word of the year. It must be the institutions that regulate the language the ones that accept this change, besides being the first ones to update themselves.


David Almécija
2n BATX B





THE WORD OF THE YEAR. Carles B. (2BATX B)

What do you thinK about the Word of the Year?

The Word of the Year of this 2015 is an emoji called “Face with Tears of Joy”. It is the first time that this has happened, it is amazing! It was chosen because this emoji best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015.

I must say that I agree with it, because I think that it has been the most used “word” during the whole year. Maybe, it means that the language is changing to something new. It is possible that the old and boring texts will be changed for more modern ones someday, with a lot of emojies that can express the feelings and sensations that people are feeling while they are writing.

For many people, maybe, this can be understood as a joke, because people write really badly on Whatsapp, for example. It is also possible that people who have chosen this emoji as the word of the year want to make us understand that we are all destroying the language. For example, we can write something really, really bad and anything happens, because we have put a nice emoji for solving the problem.I think that nowadays we have big problems of writing because of that, so in my opinion, it is nice that Oxford Dictionaries make us see that we have to work on it for to try to upgrade our writing skills.

In conclusion, only saying that I don’t like the idea of having and emoji as the Word of the Year, because I think that it is an offence to the language.



Carles Bada
2 BATX B 

Sunday, November 29, 2015

THE WORD OF THE YEAR. Ana F. (2BATX B)

WHICH WORD IS THE MOST USED?

Language is a wonderful and practical method of human communication, either spoken or written. There are countless different languages and they’ve developed over the years. Dictionaries have been made to make sense of our Language.

The Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year is an emoji. It’s crying-from laughter / crying-from-happiness emoji, officially known as the Face with tears of Joy emoji. Dictionaries have been choosing annual words of the year in recent times. But this year the Oxford University Press partnered with Swiftkey to determinate the most emoji from around the world.

This emoji is a small digital image or icon used to express an emotion in electronic communication. It is a world loaned from Japanese. Whatsapp is one of the most famous programmes which people use. This icon is highly used in this programme. Using this emoji’s become an usual way of communication. But emojis aren’t longer the preserve of texting teens instead, they’ve been embraced as a nuanced from of expression, and one which can cross language barriers.

In my opinion, the best word of the year could be “love”. Because this year was the first year, that I met someone who makes me understand what it means. But I don’t think my best word could be an emoji, because I use so many and maybe I couldn’t decide which one it would be the best.

I’ve also a more serious candidate, though it possibly doesn’t belong specifically to 2015.  That is the use of ‘past ‘when we talk about past things that we wish we could have changed but it’s too late now. It could be used in other ways such as nice remembrances we have in our mind. And also dreaming to go back in the past and could have met some special person who left us times ago.



                                             ANA FORNER

2n BATXILLERAT