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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
ah, well i didn't realise that you were not in fact at all invested emotionally in the discussion, your choice of words makes it seem on the contrary that you feel very strongly about this.
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There was a study that came out a couple of years back (and I haven't managed to key-phrase google it up) about how people in general tend to misjudge emotional content in written communications because it lacks the standard visual/audio clues that allow one to determine mood in "live" conversation. The gist of the study is that "strong emotions" one reads into e-mails, forum posts, etc, often (maybe most of the time) just is not there, and often the same message is interpreted entirely differently by someone else. It is a form of
projecting (and everybody does it, I'm not trying to place blame on you-- for instance, Moejoe is projecting emotions into me that simply are not there over my (correct and correctly chosen) use of the word "pathetic.") That's why emoticons are around-- the little smiley at the end of a message is the difference between a little light humor and the start of a flame war. (Hey, update that saying-- for want of a smiley, a kingdom was lost!)
But all that aside, my perception of there being an active campaign to push the word "liseuse" inside and outside this forum derives from the active campaign to push the word "liseuse" inside and outside this forum:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...hlight=liseuse
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be that as it may, i mention campaign and antagonism and aggression because whenever the word has been used in any discussion here it has invariably been met with a veritable cacophony of protests from a small group of people who clearly does feel very strongly about it, to the point of actually completely derailing whatever thread it appeared in and preventing any discussion about the actual topic (which was not, in fact, the use of the word "liseuse").
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