20.3.14

Has the word 'selfie' already semantically shifted?

 
Taking a selfie
In front of the window of a noted luxury candy store in Peebles, a small town about an hour's drive south of Edinburgh, an elderly American woman approached a gentleman she didn't know and, holding out a cell phone, asked:
"Would you please take a selfie of my friend and I in front of this window?"
She was not aware that she had approached a linguist.
The gentleman in question was my friend Professor Heinz Giegerich, a distinguished phonologist and morphologist at the University of Edinburgh...
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