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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I think the issue with this word came when it was used in the topic of a thread in News and Commentary to change the name of the device being reported. It wasn't a fun friendly use of the word. It was being silly where silly didn't belong.
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i could argue that rudeness *never* belongs, and that there was certainly no ill-intent in that original post.
there are many different words being used here for various things, not everyone is using the same one (e-reader, ereader, ebook reader, liseuse, device, etc.) and there is nothing wrong with that. the whole digital reading phenomenon is relatively recent, on a historical time-scale, and language is still evolving around it. again, if you don't like the word, just ignore it.