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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Oh, good!
May I ask, Elsi, if your friends read SF? My wife and the women around me do not read SF so I was inclined to think as WDecraene. Maybe I was mistaken.
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Well, most of the women in my family read SF. My mother, both sisters, and my 3 nieces.
My daughter doesn't read SF, but she enjoys SF television and movies. When I asked why she doesn't like to read SF, she said it's because they use words she doesn't understand. Pressed, it turns out that the words she doesn't understand are made-up terms for technology that doesn't exist. Since she's dyslexic, she gets frustrated because she doesn't know whether it's a made-up word or she's just not decoding the word correctly. With TV and movies, she catches on to terms like "phaser" and "tricorder" because she can see the devices in use.