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Originally Posted by JSWolf
However, it has been decided that the official word for eBook reader is not that silly word.
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I like that there is no official word, as "official words" don't usually sit well with me, as I see them as an attack on freedom of speech. Accepted words are a different story.
Also, I grew up in English Canada, and went through high school just after Quebec's Bill 101 was passed. For those who don't know the reference, that's Quebec's language law, and it received a lot of bad press especially in the West, which is where I grew up. (The general perception of the law was that all of Canada had to be bilingual English and French to appease Quebec, but Quebec didn't have to follow the rules.) Needless to say, that gives me a predisposition against anything that looks like the imposition of a French word, whether that's what's happening or not.
I hope I've grown out of that, and I think that I have: I'm quite sure my distaste for the word liseuse doesn't stem from that source because my immediate reaction wasn't "Why did they have to pick a French word?" It was "Why did they have to pick that word?" It's a perfectly good word, I just don't like the sound of it. (I don't associate it with ebook readers either, but that's got nothing to do with my dislike of the sound - and I could learn to associate it with reading devices.)
I still think we should focus more on talking about books and devices than what we call them.