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Old 09-25-2009, 11:23 AM   #107
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Originally Posted by dmikov View Post
You missed the trigger for this poll, it is not forcing the world to use English word, it was asking for courtesy to use English word in English language forums.
Being such a wildly endangered language, it really is the least courtesy we all ought to show.

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Originally Posted by Crowl View Post
I think you are slightly mistaken here, nobody is objecting to its usage in french, its not the only term, but there does actually seem to be some use of the word outside of mr.

The usage that more and more people seem to be objecting to (judging by the votes anyway) is the ongoing attempt by a small number of people to push its use as an english term as well despite the fact that it needlessly confuses matters just as terms like ebook, ereader etc are finally starting to gain a bit of mainstream recognition.
Neither eBook nor eReader is unambiguously understood as referring to the hardware device.

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