Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is…
What: the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year
Where: the world
Why: it was the most used emoji globally in 2015
Who: everyone
When: 2015
How: not given
That’s right – for the first time ever, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is a pictograph: 
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officially called the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji, though you may
know it by other names. There were other strong contenders(競爭者) from a range
of fields, outlined below, but was chosen as the ‘word’ that best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations(名詞) of 2015.
Why was this chosen?
Emojis (the plural(複數) can be either emoji or emojis) have been around since the late 1990s, but 2015 saw their use, and use of the word emoji, increase hugely.This year Oxford University Press have partnered with leading mobile technology business SwiftKey to explore frequency and usage使用度 statistics統計數據 for some of the most popular emoji across the world, and
was chosen because it was the most used emoji globally in 2015. SwiftKey identified that made
up 20% of all the emojis used in the UK in 2015, and 17% of those in
the US: a sharp rise from 4% and 9% respectively in 2014. The word emoji
has seen a similar surge激增: although it has been found in English since
1997, usage more than tripled增至三倍 in 2015 over the previous year according
to data from the Oxford Dictionaries Corpus.A brief history of emoji
An emoji is ‘a small digital image or icon used to express an idea or emotion in electronic communication’; the term emoji is a loanword外來語 from Japanese, and comes from e ‘picture’ + moji ‘letter, character’. The similarity to the English word emoticon has helped its memorability and rise in use, though the resemblance is actually entirely coincidental: emoticon (a facial expression composed of keyboard characters, such as ;), rather than a stylized image) comes from the English words emotion and icon.Emojis are no longer the preserve of texting teens – instead, they have been embraced接受 as a nuanced微妙的 form of expression, and one which can cross language barriers. Even Hillary Clinton solicited feedback in the form of emojis, and
has had notable use from celebrities and brands alongside everyone else – and even appeared as the caption to the Vine which apparently kicked off the popularity of the term on fleek, which appears on our WOTY shortlist.http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/11/word-of-the-year-2015-emoji/
It is so cool that the pictograph can be chosen in Oxford Dictionary. Such as me, I really like to use it. I use it every where and every time. It is better than any other pictures.
回覆刪除It is so cool that the pictograph can be chosen in Oxford Dictionary. Such as me, I really like to use it. I use it every where and every time. It is better than any other pictures.
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