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Originally Posted by ardeegee
You only make yourself look silly by attacking straw men. Nobody is saying that there are no foreign words in the English language. Nobody is saying that there should be no foreign words in the English language. All that people are saying is that this particular foreign word is a stupid one, an inferior one to what already exists, an ugly sounding one, and has a whelk's chance in a supernova of catching on.
New word usage happens organically, naturally, virally, not by people begging, cajoling and campaigning for a word that almost nobody wants. That's the difference between coining a word and blooming it (my own neologism that won't catch on, based on past anti-ebook spammer Dan Bloom, who has, I see, moved on from trying to get newspapers and ebooks renamed to campaigning to get South Africa renamed " Mandelaland".) |
And your argument boils down to you and some others not liking this word (and becoming quite angry about it also). There's no campaign from our (us Liseusers) side, no begging (who would we beg?) and definitely no cajoling (but I will kick the shit out of you if you don't accept what I say
) And whose to say where a lot of words start? Maybe some do start because enough people want to use a certain word? I grew up in a place in England that in the early 80's appropriated 1920's gangster slang in several neighbourhoods (and nowhere beyond those neighbourhoods). Someone, somewhere in one of those neighbourhoods decided that the word 'moll' from 'gangster's moll', a word that was never truly used in England to describe anything, would now become a synonym for 'girlfriend'. For at least five years that word was used and then wasn't.
Shit, come to the North of England, pretty much anywhere in Lancashire or Yorkshire and you'll see all kinds of words that aren't in common usage anywhere else, even old English words that have fallen out of common usage.
Don't like the word Liseuse, fine, just don't use it. It's not like your Liseuse will explode if you don't call it a Liseuse.