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cause it's too esoteric for your average Joe
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because it's spelled avAtar which is in the dictionary, although the latest meaning of "a small picture representing a person on the internet" might not be. The more traditional representation has to do with the physical representation of a god/spirit. So the picture is your physical representation of your internet spirit.. so to speak.
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