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Originally Posted by Mr. Dalliard
First of all, I am an unashamed francophile.
However, I am having a hard time understanding the rationale for the push for the usage of word "liseuse" in English for the following raisons:
- We already have a perfectly good, descriptive, word in English, namely "ebook reader".
- "liseuse" has no cognate in English making it difficult to remember, and meaningless to the uninitiated.
- The lis, sorry, ebook reader is not a French invention.
- Do you really want to see, or rather hear, another French word get mangled by Americans? The people who turned Notre Dame into "Noter Dayme"
By all means campaign for its adoption into Le français, just don't forget to ask L’Académie nicely. |
Oh, come on!! Now you're picking on Americans?!?!
As if no other country's citizens ever adopted a word or phrase and tweeked it a little!
I for one, however, pronounce Notre Dame correctly much to the annoyance of my sainted Irish Catholic mother and football obsessed father!
Please, let's not stereotype.
Seriously, though, even here in the US pronounceations can vary drastically. I'm originally from the Chicago area. When I first moved to the East coast, people in my office continually commented on my "accent".
I had no idea I even had one!!
