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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
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.
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So you don't think that it is non-welcoming and exclusionary to persist in trying to use this word in things like english news posts, particularly in respect to new people? Taking myself as an example, when first searching for ebook-related topics a lot of searches lead to this site and there should be a certain level of responsibility to not be actively trying to confuse new visitors, which is what the use of what is basically a random word amounts to.
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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.
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People keep bringing up this issue of loan words and thats actually a bit of a red herring because the word isn't even the main choice in its own language, which is usually the case when words end up being adopted by another language.