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Originally Posted by HarryT

I loath this word personally. Unless you're French, I can see no conceivable reason for wanting to use it. Let's hope that it dies the death that it so richly deserves.

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Never seen any sign of the word (thankfully). And I wouldn't even mention it under gunpoint...

Originally Posted by kennyc

I hope not. I hate that silly word.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I agree 100%.

Google Translate translates this awful word into reading light. That being the case, it has no use meaning electronic eBook viewing device. It is rather silly to call a reader a reading light.

Originally Posted by dmaul1114

I'm in it too.

I just feel no need to use a foreign language term for something that's not exclusive to that culture.

Something universal like a tech gadget can have it's own label in each language.

Originally Posted by GlennD

I'm not sure how to pronounce it either, but I'd assume it rhymes with 'masseuse'. Which doesn't invoke reading to me, either. It makes me wonder who is rubbing what.

But I'm just an ignorant American.

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Hear! Hear! I second this emotion and death wish!!

Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj

I don't know French, so this word may fit perfectly there. But in English it doesn't fit and sounds bad, at least in my opinion.

We are in the same boat guys.