josefit's weird that we didn't use to have a word for "selfie", even though people did them all the time, for years, maybe even multiple decades, before it suddenly became imperative to have word for it
Niels@jk uh self portrait? So we had two words... but in Dutch it was always one word: "zelfportret".
@nielsim i think selfie is a more specific subset of a self-portrait though, e.g. a self-portrait could be a painting, or taken with a camera placed somewhere using the self-timer feature of a camera? whereas selfie is often pretty specific, generally a handheld camera facing the person taking the photo?
@jk Perhaps that's true... "Look at my new selfie, painted it myself in the span of the last three days" just doesn't sound right ;-)
Glenn@jk @nielsim I found an old photo of my dad when he was stationed in Hawaii during the Korean War. He was holding his camera with both hands. It's framed really well, too. B&W, natch. I love thinking of him 'doing a selfie' before it was a thing, even though there was no word for it then, particularly. I do agree that most people then would have referred to it as a self-portrait, because it was new to even *have* a camera you could do that with, and there was no social media.
@jk @nielsim OK, so I found the selfie. Not as great a photo as I had remembered, but still LOL - 1950-something
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