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Originally Posted by ewiplayer
Personally I like "The Device" ... sounds like something Q branch would have made.
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hm. actually, put like that, i suddenly have a new appreciation for "The Device". but it must always be used with the definite article and initial caps. and preferably in quotation marks.
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Originally Posted by splanchnic
Well, my five year old daughter is in French school and speaks the language so much better than I do (her little friends already make fun of my english inflected accent) that I am happy to add any new words to my vocabulary. Thanks! And really, it sounds much more sophisticated...
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well you couldn't have chosen a better one, then, because you get not one, not two, but about 6 words for the price of one, with liseuse. yep ! apart from meaning "electronic reading device", it also means :
1. lamp for reading
2. knife for cutting book pages (also used as a bookmark)
3. protective book cover
4. short jacket worn by women in bed (while reading)
5. a woman reading (lectrice).
bonus !
now, if you can just manage to think of ways to slip it into conversation for each one of its meanings...
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Originally Posted by mtravellerh
Reader is surely a foreign word in French, too.
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oh, yep, it is. not that that stops the french from using it (some of them).