swipe
swipe – verbo
You’re always prowling, you can swipe a couple hundred people a day.
Many men swipe right – approving all before them – until they reach the upper limit of around 100 approvals every 12 hours.
Her mission was to spend a few minutes each day doing some swiping and chatting with women who’d already been right-swiped, and right-swiped back.
13 Things That Make Guys Automatically Left-Swipe on Tinder.
In un nuovo saggio dedicato alle mani, lo psicanalista inglese Darian Leader sostiene che per tenerle impegnate, quasi per darci un contegno, oggi usiamo lo smartphone come una volta usavamo la sigaretta, specialmente in pubblico. Grazie all’accesso continuo a internet lo smartphone ci intrattiene senza sosta e l’uso del touchscreen ha dato origine a tutta una nuova serie di gesti accompagnati da una nuova terminologia. In particolare, l’app di incontri Tinder che chiede di fare uno swipe a destra se la persona ti interessa o a sinistra se la vuoi scartare, ha portato a un nuovo vocabolario del dating, aggiungendo nuovi significati a un verbo di per sé versatile.
Origini del termine
Dopo il lancio di Tinder, nel 2012, to swipe right o left (uso intransitivo) e persino to swipe someone (uso transitivo) sono entrati nel linguaggio, anche svincolati dall’uso di quella particolare app.
swipe – verb I/T
You’re always prowling, you can swipe a couple hundred people a day.
Many men swipe right – approving all before them – until they reach the upper limit of around 100 approvals every 12 hours.
Her mission was to spend a few minutes each day doing some swiping and chatting with women who’d already been right-swiped, and right-swiped back.
13 Things That Make Guys Automatically Left-Swipe on Tinder.
A new book by psychoanalyst Darian Leader about our hands and what we do with them suggests that mobile phones have replaced cigarettes as the favourite way of keeping the hands occupied, especially in public. Constant internet access means that smartphones are capable of keeping us endlessly entertained, while the touchscreen has given rise not only to a new set of gestures but to the language to go with it. In particular, the way dating apps such as Tinder work – swipe right if you’re interested in someone, left if you’re not – has led to a whole new vocabulary of dating, adding new senses to a verb that was already highly versatile and polysemous.
Origins
Tinder burst onto the scene in 2012 and the terminology of swiping right and left, and even swiping people, as in the first example above, began to be seen soon after. Of course it’s not only dating apps that use swiping gestures, but the word has become very strongly associated with these rather than with apps in general.
