You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

On our Facebook group, Lucinda Kennedy said,

there's a word I can't for the life of me remember.

It refers to focusing on the taking of pictures

of significant events or situations,

such as weddings or eclipses.

Taking the picture becomes the focus, minimizing the event to the point

that the event is missed and boy did that prompt a fascinating discussion.

Some of it was about interesting or clever terms for missing out on an event because you're too

preoccupied with taking a picture or a video.

Jason said, when there's a group of people who are together but completely focused on their phones that's divisolation which I liked very much

Divisolation and Robert noted a growing use of the term uncaptured.

People saying, I'm glad that was uncaptured.

You know, like you tell people, don't bring phones

to the wedding.

You know, don't use your phones while all of that's going on yeah I just

attended a wedding lovely wedding for my sister-in-law and my new brother-in-law and

they asked that people put their phones away during the ceremony and they were two

professional photographers there

and they didn't need the distraction.

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