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Old 08-04-2009, 12:05 PM   #31
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If you walk in a shop in Italy and ask for a "liseuse", they give you this:



I wouldn't be surprised if it would be a misuse of the word, though: it wouldn't be the first time that a foreign word gets a totally different and unexplainably new meaning in Italian.
one of the meanings in french is a little jacket a woman wears in bed, to keep warm while... reading. it looks like the same thing in italian.
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Old 08-04-2009, 12:06 PM   #32
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If you walk in a shop in Italy and ask for a "liseuse", they give you this:



I wouldn't be surprised if it would be a misuse of the word, though: it wouldn't be the first time that a foreign word gets a totally different and unexplainably new meaning in Italian.

They give you a 'lady'? I must visit my Italian relatives more often
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Old 08-04-2009, 12:06 PM   #33
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one of the meanings in french is a little jacket a woman wears in bed, to keep warm while... reading. it looks like the same thing in italian.
Actually I'm referring to the piece of cloth held with both arms behind the lady's back

More of an ornament than a useful piece of cloth (almost as useless for a womand as a tie for a man).

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Yup!
If you do, please tell me first so I'll invite you to have a bowling match with me: the bowling place near where I live has this sign outside:
"Martedì: donna omaggio ogni due biglietti acquistati"
The intended meaning would be "Tuesday: for every couple, the woman doesn't pay", but reading it straight its more like "Tuesday: free woman every two tickets bought".
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Actually I'm referring to the piece of cloth held with both arms behind the lady's back

More of an ornament than a useful piece of cloth (almost as useless for a womand as a tie for a man).


Yup!
If you do, please tell me first so I'll invite you to have a bowling match with me: the bowling place near where I live has this sign outside:
"Martedì: donna omaggio ogni due biglietti acquistati"
The intended meaning would be "Tuesday: for every couple, the woman doesn't pay", but reading it straight its more like "Tuesday: free woman every two tickets bought".
Now I want to visit Italy even more
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Old 08-04-2009, 12:15 PM   #37
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Actually I'm referring to the piece of cloth held with both arms behind the lady's back

More of an ornament than a useful piece of cloth (almost as useless for a womand as a tie for a man).
ah, well in that case, it's just that you crazy italians are just making stuff up.

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Yup!
If you do, please tell me first so I'll invite you to have a bowling match with me: the bowling place near where I live has this sign outside:
"Martedì: donna omaggio ogni due biglietti acquistati"
The intended meaning would be "Tuesday: for every couple, the woman doesn't pay", but reading it straight its more like "Tuesday: free woman every two tickets bought".

(when to the offer the free men ?)
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Old 08-04-2009, 12:18 PM   #38
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(when to the offer the free men ?)
Men are free* all the time, we're just built that way


*satisfaction not guaranteed, no refunds, no money back
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Old 08-04-2009, 12:19 PM   #39
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(also : wow, apparently i was trying to beat the record for "highest typo-to-total-character ratio" with that last one.)
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to me I like Digital Readers or Digital Display Devices(D3 or D³ (altcode 0179))
better then liseuse.
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Old 08-04-2009, 12:21 PM   #41
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to me I like Digital Readers or Digital Display Devices(D3 or D³ (altcode 0179))
better then liseuse.
You could call it a Digital Reading Manager...
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(when to the offer the free men ?)
Tuesdays too. Think: two tickets (probably two men), a free woman... there's a free man waiting for you, alone

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If you walk in a shop in Italy and ask for a "liseuse", they give you this
Any shop?
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They give you a 'lady'? I must visit my Italian relatives more often
Ha, that was my first thought when I saw that post too! Great minds think alike! Or as a German guy I used to work with would say "Two monkeys, one brain"!

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dynabook <-- did you click the link?
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Maybe I didn't emphasize it correctly the first time. That's

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to me I like Digital Readers or Digital Display Devices(D3 or D³ (altcode 0179))
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Well Digital Reader is a name used for the iRex device. I like PADD which is what they are called on StarTrek
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does OverPricedElectronicGadgetForReading work as a naming convention?

I din't think so either.

I usually try and show a total lack of imagination and use "e-reading device" when indicating it is a device I am discussing rather than software. But, that is only because there is yet to be an actual name for the class of devices.

Makes me wonder if the "e" is needed when discussing our gadgets we use to read books. WOuld not "reading device" be sufficent...I mean even with TTS, as a rool it seems implied that it is harder to read a paperback, much less a hard cover, on an electronic reading device, than it is to simply hold the book and read it...so the "e" might be redundant? hehehe....

reading device = readdev ~= readev (no need for the double-D's....awwwkkk...we all know THAT is untrue... )

Still, I believe I'll use readev from now on...I would use liesuse but it hurts my tongue to type that word....I feel sort of norty yet very satisfied, after typing it for some reason...
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