Thread: What do you think of the name "liseuse?"
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Old 09-26-2009, 08:12 AM   #151
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Originally Posted by Nate the great View Post
I have to say that I'm more than a little surprised at the hostility and rudeness displayed by some of those who don't like the word.
I agree, and I find it not only very surprising but also disappointing and unworthy of this community, when MobileRead's distinction is that we have always tried to be welcoming and inclusive of everyone here. Note that I am talking specifically about the reactions of the people who don't like the word "liseuse", completely detached from the question of whether or not it will ever be widely used in english. It's also rather ironic given what a diverse variety of loan words english already uses and particularly how many of the "english" words being used in these posts have french origins. If you don't like the word, don't use it. That really should be enough.

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Originally Posted by brecklundin View Post
+1

Seems a fun thing has turned pretty nasty...as I said before....people it is JUST A WORD.
Exactly. It is JUST A WORD, and no-one is trying to force anyone to use it, to begin with. Some of these reactions are totally unjustified.

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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
Maybe we need to make up an English word since there isn't one, how about besilview?
Ironically, trying to answer that question is precisely how liseuse was first mentioned here.

Oh, just a note to those people talking about using loan words for things which originated in the country whose language is being used :
- Cytale, a french company, creator of the Cybook, predecessor of Bookeen, was founded in Paris in 1998.
- Mobipocket is a french company, founded in Paris in 2000.
- Feedbooks is more recent but arguably unique, and is french.
I don't know whether any of these were "first" but they do show at least a significant history here.

Ironic, given this history, that more french people don't know about ebooks and liseuses, although that is now starting to change somewhat.

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