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Old 11-10-2010, 10:02 AM   #61
Janet Rosen
 
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Re: Ego in the forum

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Alejandro Villanueva wrote: View Post
Well, I don't know in English, but in good old Spanish there surely is a difference between "egocéntrico (egocentric)" and "egoísta (selfish)". In my part of the world, egocentric is used to describe the person who believe that he is the... well... center of everything else, that everything's about him, that he's the bride in the wedding, the baby in the baptism, the dead in the funeral. Selfish is the one who wants it all. But maybe we should move this to the Latin Subforum.
Same in English. Two very different words to describe two very different people.

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