Thread: Do we need a new word for "reading" on screens since it is a very different animal?
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Old 11-04-2009, 01:36 PM   #178
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Originally Posted by ardeegee View Post
Okay, Dan, since you ask for it point blank, here's your true agenda.

You love books-- that is clearly established. You have made part of your living from writing, and had a few small publications in the past

http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Halevi-..._athr_dp_pel_1

But you never gained the true fame as a writer that you dreamed of in your youth. You just barely scrape by selling your books one at a time on a street corner because they won't sell in stores

http://www.mobylives.com/Bloom_at_large.html

and you fear that even that means of earning money is endangered by the possibility of people buying their books electronically and not giving you the chance to do that face-to-face hard sell, getting people to buy your books because they don't want to be rude to you.

But you are feeling not only the hands of time, but the sort of isolation of being a "stranger in a strange land" in Asia even though you've been there for many years. You want a legacy attached to your name. First you attempted to gain a legacy on the internet by posting wildly hyperbolic global warming alarmism:

http://www.achangeinthewind.com/2007...oom-break.html

That hasn't seemed to work out for you, so now you are hoping to make a legacy out of being a lone voice in the wilderness crying out about how reading something from a screen is so bad and so detrimental to the way people think that children who grow up reading words from a screen instead of paper will no longer be able to think critically, which is baseless tinfoil hattery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat and believe that, by being the person to submit "new words" to a popular web site for slang it somehow gives legitimacy to the words and to the concepts behind the words, and you really need to continue pushing that you are the one who submitted those words to the urban dictionary. Also, you believe that legitimacy rubs off on you when you e-mail famous or successful people and they reply to your questions.

Got your one-word comment ready?
Give the OPs immediate abandonment of this thread, I'd say you hit the nail dead on with the hammer with this analysis.
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