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Originally Posted by davidfor
As the others have stated, I was commenting on how the lighting works, not whether it was lit or not. And thanks to rcentros's links, the light is described as:
With some added emphasis to show it is described as frontlit and compared to backlit devices.
No pedantry. I probably would have ignored your original statement that it was backlight. But, when you questioned the correction of your statement, you were going to get an explanation of why your statement was wrong. I was just the first to come along.
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Guess what? Don't care. It fits the term for pedantry to me. My device is readable at night in the dark. Perhaps I should have watched my words more carefully but as an owner of such a device, it's "backlit" enough for me. It works exactly as I described, I don't need a "front light" as the term would commonly be expected to mean, so it's "back lit".
Feel free to not like it.