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(CNN Spanish) - Since 2013, the Urgent Spanish Foundation (Fundéu), promoted by the Efe Agency and BBVA, has named the word of the year in Spanish in the best style of the Oxford Dictionary in English. And, as the English speakers did in 2015, this year in our language the word of the year is not in a sense a word: they are the emojis.
"The emoticons and emojis (and their evolutions: bitmojis, memojis, animojis ...) are already part of our daily communication and conquer new spaces every day beyond private conversations in chat rooms and messaging applications in which they began using them" , said the Fundéu in its announcement.
- Mate is on the list of new emojis
The choice is made by the members of the Fundéu, who are philologists and journalists, after analyzing the language “more related to informational news”.
For the Fundéu, the impact of emojis on everyday life is undeniable: “Their interesting relationships with the rest of the elements that make up the communication (words, phrases, punctuation marks…) and the perspectives that open for the future they have led the Fundéu to give emoticons and emojis the word distinction of the year ”.
According to the Foundation, the emoticons - made with spelling signs, like this one , the happy face - appeared in the nineties and evolved in this century to emojis, and expressive drawings - like this one -, and what has "supposed" an obvious change in the way we communicate. ”
The words chosen in the previous editions were escrache in 2013, selfi in 2014, refugee in 2015, populism in 2016, aporophobia in 2017 and microplastic in 2018.
If you want to know more about how to use emojis properly, look at the editorial keys of the Fundéu.
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