The word of the year
Every year,
the Oxford dictionary chooses one word which they consider it’s the “word of
the year”. For example, in 2012 the word was hashtag (a
word or phrase preceded by a hash symbol (#), used on Twitter to mark a topic
or make a commentary). In 2014 itwas #blacklivesmatter
(hashtag used as protest over blacks killed at the hands of police). Those 2
words are only two examples of all the words that have been chosen since 1990.
The word
which was selected this year is not really a word, it’s an emoji. I couldn’t
imagine that an emoji would be elected as the word of the year. Maybe just because
it doesn’t have a concrete pronunciation, but yes a meaning. I will put a photo
of the emoji on the bottom of the composition, because in my keyboard it
doesn’t appear.
The meaning
of that emoji is maybe when something makes you smile arriving at the point
that you laugh. It’s obviously that 99,9% of the times we use it we are not
really in this situation and we write it just because the other people knows
his/her comment has been funny. We can use it too when we want to scoff to something and we want to let him or her
know that we are doing it. But this is not the use we have to give to this
emoji.
In my
opinion it’s an original “word” which today is very common and everybody uses
in their smartphones. Nowadays technology is allowing us to share our feelings
to the world with many methods, one of them are the emoji, which illustrates
faces that means states of the person, for example J L …
ADRIÀ HUGAS
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