The literal translation of shipping refers to a shipment or shipment.
In recent years, the use of certain terms from the English language has spread in our language. Words like cringe or lit are increasingly popular, especially on social networks.
The concept of shipping is also part of the words that, beyond their foreign origin and their translation into Spanish, are used in Internet slang . If we go to an English dictionary, we will find that shipping refers to a shipment or shipment .
Shipping in logistics
The literal use of shipping, therefore, appears in the field of transportation , logistics and mail . Expressions such as shipping fee or shipping cost are linked to the expenses or costs derived from shipping merchandise .
When a person purchases a product over the Internet , for example, they must consider the additional money they have to pay for the item in question to arrive at their home. That is to say: if an object has a price of 100 dollars and a shipping fee of 20 dollars , the buyer will have to pay 120 dollars to receive it.
Expenditures related to shipping are intended for the service of the transport or mail company . They have nothing to do with the product itself, although they are calculated according to the dimensions and weight of the package, in addition to the distance it must travel.
Shipping can encourage a homosexual relationship between two characters.
The concept in relationships
It is important to note that, nowadays, the idea of shipping is often used in a very different way. Today, shipping is referred to as the pairing that, based on subjective criteria, someone makes of two individuals .
Typically, shipping is associated with fictional characters or public figures . Suppose that fans of a television series fantasize about the protagonists establishing a romantic bond. It does not matter whether the development of the fictional story suggests such a relationship or whether it is probable in the plot: shipping implies the desire for the link to come to fruition.
The action of making this pairing is called shipping ; The person who carries out the act, meanwhile, is called the shipper . It can be stated that the shippers intend to ship the characters so that the ship is established.
Origins of shipping
Ship is believed to come from relationship . In any case, there are no details about the origin of the notion of shipping in the romantic field.
What can be certain is that the concept was already in use in the mid -1990s . In newsgroups dedicated to the series "The X-Files" (which is known as "X-Files" in the Spanish market and as "The X-Files" , " The X -Files" , " The " Code
When shipping is encouraged between characters of the same sex, it is called slash . That's what happens with Batman and Robin , to mention one case.