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Taylor514ce · 03-17-2008, 10:18 PM

You'll have to trust me on this, but I care profoundly how words are pronounced and used. (You will have to imagine the dense crowd of former students figuratively looking over my shoulder as I type, nodding and rolling their eyes at the understatement.) I'm also a fluent French speaker. But, there is still no reason to use the term "liseuse" for e-book readers, in English. None. It solves no problems, clarifies nothing.

I suppose it makes no difference if someone wants to engage in a petty eccentricity, using obscure foreign nouns in place of perfectly clear English, but it does lend itself to ridicule and completely obscures the main point.

Solar Chargers. Sure. Seems a good thing. I think I'll call Solar Chargers "Zonneladers". In another thread, I decided to call cell phones "gimboos". Can you tell me if the zonnelader you've tested works on gimboos as well as liseuses?

03-17-2008, 10:18 PM	#23
Taylor514ce Actively passive. Posts: 2,042 Karma: 478376 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: US Device: Sony PRS-505/LC	You'll have to trust me on this, but I care profoundly how words are pronounced and used. (You will have to imagine the dense crowd of former students figuratively looking over my shoulder as I type, nodding and rolling their eyes at the understatement.) I'm also a fluent French speaker. But, there is still no reason to use the term "liseuse" for e-book readers, in English. None. It solves no problems, clarifies nothing. I suppose it makes no difference if someone wants to engage in a petty eccentricity, using obscure foreign nouns in place of perfectly clear English, but it does lend itself to ridicule and completely obscures the main point. Solar Chargers. Sure. Seems a good thing. I think I'll call Solar Chargers "Zonneladers". In another thread, I decided to call cell phones "gimboos". Can you tell me if the zonnelader you've tested works on gimboos as well as liseuses? Last edited by Taylor514ce; 03-17-2008 at 11:51 PM. Reason: I misspellified "liseuse".