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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i like the french term "liseuse" very much as a generic word, which can be translated as "reader" quite simply. however i suppose you are probably looking for an english term...
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I like liseuse, and lets face it, English is full of words that have been acquired from elsewhere. That's what makes it so great, that it has words like dinosaur, mana, kilometre and Eskimo in it (Greek, Polynesian, French and Eskimo respectively). It's not as though one more French word in the language will hurt the situation, our spelling is already atrocious. I'm sure we could Anglicise the spelling enough that the French would disown the term
Perhaps lissoose so that merkins can pronounce it properly :P