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Andybusy Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Is that correct?

When I saw a nice picture and I wanna ask my friend?

Who took it for you?
Or what should I say?
  

Top answer

You always click a photo. Who clicked it would be fine.

  • You always click a photo.
  • Who clicked it would be fine.
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11 Answers
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You always click a photo.
Who clicked it would be fine.
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Pictures are "taken," buttons are "clicked." If I heard the verb "click" I would assume a mouse pointer or keystroke on a computer, not the opening and closing of a shutter.

If you ask "Who clicked this photo?" sounds like a question you'd pose on an internet forum when trying to see if the photo you posted was popular or not. The number of "clicks" meaning those who clicked on the
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I am an Indian, we follow BrE. And according to that we use click for a photograph.
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But why? Is that really the only terminology for it? When photography was developed there was no clicking involved. There were shutters that opened and closed, there was a flash. Nothing was controlled by buttons.
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Because when we press the button to take a photograph, we here the 'click' sound. That is why we use click for it. As you said we click a button. That click sound made BrE to use click for photograph.
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Well, maybe it is specific to India.

was "taken" by Scotsman James Clerk Maxwell in 1861.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/2053935769/ of Winston Churchill was "taken" in 1946.

This modern British
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When we speakers of British English take a photograph we do not 'click a photograph' or 'click for a photograph'.
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Apologies, it seems my links were not permitted. One of them is an image on Wikipedia, one of them flickr, and one of them a company webpage.
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DoNotPassGo it seems my links were not permitted
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