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
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