{"id":14181,"date":"2017-06-29T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14181"},"modified":"2017-06-29T14:44:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:44:02","slug":"shelfies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14181","title":{"rendered":"Shelfies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a new word on Instagram today &#8211; <strong>shelfie<\/strong>, a portmanteau of shelf and selfie meaning, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/shelfie\">Wiktionary<\/a>, &#8220;a photograph of a bookshelf\/bookcase taken by its owner and shared on social media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The context I saw the word was even more specific &#8211; language shelfies, i.e. a photo of a bookshelf containing language courses, dictionaries, and other language-related books.<\/p>\n<p>So here are a few of my language shelfies:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/shelfie1.jpg\" width=\"710\" height=\"622\" alt=\"Shelfie of some of my language books\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/shelfie2.jpg\" width=\"709\" height=\"622\" alt=\"Shelfie of some of my language books\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a non-language shelfie. Can you guess who my favourite author is?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/shelfie3.jpg\" width=\"710\" height=\"364\" alt=\"Shelfie of some of my favourite fiction books\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see larger versions of these shelfies on <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHsm3yBsGV\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Are there equivalents of selfie or shelfie in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a new word on Instagram today &#8211; shelfie, a portmanteau of shelf and selfie meaning, according to Wiktionary, &#8220;a photograph of a bookshelf\/bookcase taken by its owner and shared on social media.&#8221; The context I saw the word was even more specific &#8211; language shelfies, i.e. a photo of a bookshelf containing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}