Hello , thank you for clicking on this video I am Niharika back with a new lesson for you
.Have you noticed some strange technical slang words that most of the English speakers use
it on daily basis and then you keep wondering what exactly it means? Well, this lesson will
tell you what exactly it means. In this lesson we are gonna look at some slang terms, in
fact some technical slang words that belong to the world of photography, camera or phone.
So let’s get started. The first one that we have over here is Selfie , So are you selfie
obsessed, Well many of my friends on Facebook are selfie obsessed. So what exactly this
word mean? Well, Selfie is a self-picture that is taken by extending your arm and then
clicking with the help of a digital camera or may be your camera phone. So most of the
youngsters these days say “Hey will you take a selfie for me? Or Let’s take aselfie
! So what exactly a selfieis? You extend your arm and take picture of yourself, you pout,you
smile but you are taking a picture of yourself. That is a selfie, a self-picture. As I said
it’s typically taken by extending your arm but you can also take a self-picture of yourself
by clicking it or pointing your camera phone at a mirror. Many of y’all must have come
across pictures that are uploaded on Facebook or twitter so these pictures are taken, they
selfies but they are taken by pointing at the mirror.
Another word here is Groupie;now a groupie is pretty much like a selfie. Well, the only
difference is, that a groupie is taken by couple of people, basically by two or more
members where in one of the member extends their arm and takes a picture so that all
other group members are covered in the picture. That is a groupie, everybody is doing it these
days it it’s pretty much in at the awards, at any function, at any parties they are these
group of friends who get together and they love taking groupie’s. So that’s a groupie,
a self-picture or a picture of lot of members but again taken by extending your arm. So
it is a group picture. Another word here is a belfie , Strange! Have
you ever heard this before? Well, it has a very funny meaning to it. Well, Belfie means
again self-picture but a self-picture of not yourself but of your buttocks. That is funny
are there people around who really take a belfie. Apparently yes, and that’s exactly
the reason why we have the word here. That’s Belfie. SO Belfie is a self-picture, it is
a selfie of your buttocks. So the next time you come across that kind of a picture you
can say Hey, that’s a Belfie, so you know it what exactly it means and what it is called.
The next word over here is photobomb. Now, when you are taking a picture with your loved
one you are smiling and posing for a picture with your loved one and there goes your friend
who just hops in he’s definitely uninvited but hops into the picture the moment it is
taken. So , this means that he photobombed your picture.so an Univited person who just
hops into your picture while it’s been clicked. So basically he is called a photobomber. So
the person who does that will be called a photobomber and if you see someone doing that
you will say, “Hey will you stop photobombing my picture , Okay , so that’s the word.
The next one is shutterbug and if you see there’s another one here shutter nutter,
now shutterbug is an American slang which is used for a photographer who just eats sleeps
drinks photography. All that person loves to do is take pictures of anything and everything.
So that kind of a photographer we call them a shutterbug that is an American term for a photographer who loves taking pictures all day long and
shutter nutter is a British slang and again with the same meaning who eats drinks sleeps photography. So hope you got this.
Let’s move on here, We have Uncle bob. Uncle Bob, is a slang term used by wedding photographers
for a person who keeps distracting every picture or keeps distracting the wedding photographers.
We all have Uncle Bobs in our weddings. You go to a wedding you will always see a person
who’s carrying a camera and clicking pictures as if he’s been hired for photography. So
that’s Uncle Bob for you who keep’s annoying these wedding photographers because wedding
photographers love to be perfect, they love to do their job and if someone just keeps
popping in or comes into their way, they get really annoyed so that person who keep’s
clicking pictures and kinda distract these wedding photographers, wedding photographers
like to call them, call him or her as Uncle Bob. For someone who keeps disturbing the
wedding photographers. Okay. Then we have Paparazzi, Well, I’m sure you
have come across this word especially in glamour magazines or the newspapers. Well, the paparazzi
are media photographers who love taking pictures of celebrities and especially when the celebrities
are busy living their routine life so they kinda invade their privacy. SO they are paparazzi’s
and trust me the celebrities do not like to be papped, papped I will come to that but
they do not like to papped by the paparazzi’s. So which means they hate to share their pictures
to the media when they are leading their normal life. So paparazzi are the photographers who
click celebrities. It’s like they keep stalking them and they really invade their privacy.
Not good but yes that’s paparazzi for you. The next word is phablet, now this technical
slang word is related to a phone. Now a phablet is something which is a phone plus a tablet.
These days we love to buy new phones and especially people love to buy phablets so they are these
phones which can used be used as phone and as a tablet, Okay! So it has all the features.
That’s a phablet for you. The next one is pap. Well, the word pap means to click. But
then again it’s not just to click but to click celebrities.. SO when I said that the
celebrities do not like to papped, papped means they do not like to be clicked by the
paparazzi. So that’s the slang word you can use: Ahh, poor celebrities can’t even
step out of their house without being papped which means without being clicked by the paparazzi.
So that’s the word for you. The next one is blower, now blower is another technical
slang word that is used for a telephone. Get on the blower, so which means get on the telephone,
so that’s a slang word for the telephone. Then we have hotspot. Hot Spot is a wireless
network that you find in a coffee shop, in restaurants. So it is a local wireless connection
that you can connect your laptops or phone to. So it’s basically wireless network connection.
So like when you go for a cup of coffee to Starbucks, they offer hotspot, they offer
wireless connection. So that is the slang word used for a wireless connection.
The next one infact the last one that I have for you is Brick, well, Brick what you think
it means. Brick means a big huge phone. These days there are phone companies that are introducing
these big hugephones, Most of them are phablets. So, these phablets are huge. So when you are
talking it just feels like you are holding a brick to you ear. So many people say “Oh
My God! Look at your phone; it’s a brick “So which means your phone is big, it’s
huge and most probably it is a phablet. So brick is big phone. But I like using big phones,
I like using the brick, that’s how I can say it. So these are some technical slang
words that are now turned into plain English, which means that English speakers use these
words on daily basis. So start using them and hope this lesson is useful to you, I will
be back with a new lesson soon. Thank you for watching this video till then you take care.