Selfie vs Myself - What's the difference?
selfie | myself |
(label) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.
* 2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches"
* 2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos." [http://wayback.archive.org/web/20041126014124/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcguirk/], Flickr:
* 2005 , Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index , HOW Books (2005), ISBN 9781581807660,
* 2012' December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A '''Selfie ” [http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/12/27/168139129/the-mars-rover-takes-a-selfie], ''the picture show , National Public Radio
* 2013' December 13, Roberto Schmidt (guest), Brooke Gladstone (interviewer and editor), “The Photographer Behind ‘'''Selfie -Gate’”, ''On the Media , National Public Radio:
(informal) to take a selfie
(reflexive) Me, as direct or indirect object
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, title= Personally, for my part; used in apposition to (I), sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described.
Me (as the object of a verb or preposition).
* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 36:
(archaic) I (as the subject of a verb).
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*1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged :
*:Myself am confident that an ointment of it is one of the best remedies for a scabby head that is.
that being which is oneself
As nouns the difference between selfie and myself
is that selfie is (label) a photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc) with a small camera or mobile phone while myself is that being which is oneself.As a verb selfie
is (informal) to take a selfie.As a pronoun myself is
(reflexive) me, as direct or indirect object.selfie
English
Noun
(en noun)ABC Online Forum [[http://wayback.archive.org/web/20040118000958/http://mcs.une.edu.au/~nhope/lip.jpg selfie photo]:
- Um, drunk at a mates(SIC) 21st, I tripped ofer(SIC) and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie .
- Pre. Nice rooftop selfie'. No Hair. Another nice rooftop ' selfie .
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- That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie .
- Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.
Derived terms
* (l)Hypernyms
* self-portraitVerb
External links
* (Selfie) * ----myself
English
Alternative forms
* meself (non-standard) * myselfe (archaic)Pronoun
(en-pron)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself , “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
- Later I realized that the ignorant man that day was not the chief but myself .
- And my selfe have knowen a Gentleman, a chiefe officer of our crowne, that by right and hope of succession (had he lived unto it) was to inherit above fifty thousand crownes a yeere good land.
Usage notes
* Use where I could be used is mostly poetic or archaic, except with a coordinating conjunction, such as (and). * (2009) reports opposition to the intensifier use, especially where (I) could be used. *AP Stylebook Online(2010) reports opposition to the intensifier use as reflexive pronouns (myself) should not be used instead of objective pronouns (me).
See also
(English personal pronouns)Noun
(ourselves)- I am not myself today.
