Selbstie

Selbstie: noun. The word selbstie was developed by the Organisation gegen die Anglifizierung der deutschen Sprache (OGDADDS), also known by its English name and acronym: Organisation against the Anglification of the German Language (OATAOTGL). Meant as a purely German substitute for the English word ‘selfie,’ the word selbstie soon came under ridicule among Husserlian phenomenologists, who drew parallels between the word selbstie and Husserl’s exclamation “zur Sache selbst!”, a frustrated attempt to transcend the limitations of the subject and behold the object in and of itself. For Husserlians, a selbstie is an oxymoron, as a picture is about as far away from “die Sache selbst” as can be. For the same reason, the humiliated OGDADDS rejected a subsequent proposal to call selfies dingies, as a similarly vituperative Kantian response on account of the “Ding an sich” was expected.