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Originally Posted by kennyc
Zelda I'm beginning to take exception to you behaving the way you do as a moderator. Don't threaten me. I have every right to participate in this discussion as you. I have every right to object to using a MADE UP word for a device that has a perfectly good name.
If you would like to use the word in your French Forum, be my guest, but when you post in English and insist on using a made-up word for an e-book reader I AM INSULTED. You are TROLLING as much as anyone if that that is what you want to call it. Please don't insult me, and don't threaten me. Your post has been reported.
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kenny, I'm sorry if you take exception to being reminded of our guidelines, but they are there for *everyone* and pointing them out when necessary does not constitute a threat and is in fact part of my job as a moderator.
As for being offended by my using the word "liseuse", I did not start this thread, nor have I ever attempted in any way to force the use of the word on anyone else. It is certainly not a "made up" word in any way, although that seems a curious reason for you to feel insulted by it. Regardless, as a french speaker, I can assure you that there is nothing derogatory nor insulting about the word.
As I have said several times already : please feel free to use whatever word you choose, but please also respect the choices of other members even when they differ from yours. Don't hesitate to use the ignore feature of the forum whenever necessary, if you are annoyed by the posts or the vocabulary of any person in particular. I would also like to point out the "ignore thread" feature which you'll find in the thread tools menu at the top of the page, it might save you a bit of irritation to ignore this thread.