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Originally Posted by HarryT
... "читатель" (the Russian word for "reader", in case you were wondering).
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I wasn't wondering. I looked it up, it's not that difficult and I didn't think it was rude of you to drop a foreign word into the conversation
Words are assigned meaning by the people using them. When the name iPad became known, if you remember, it was the subject of much ridicule. Many people claimed it evoked anything but the image of a tablet device. Now, what, a few months later?, most of us have already forgotten our initial reactions to the word and use it naturally. It only took a little (ok, an awful lot of) marketing and a huge fanbase. Even without the corporate backing, I don't see why words that are unknown at one point in time cannot become popular later. It happens all the time.
I don't really care if 'liseuse' catches on or not, or who uses it. I'm just reacting to all the disproportionately negative reactions to it. It's just a word, nothing to get so upset about.