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Originally Posted by danbloom
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A lot of opinions there are based on anecdotal evidence only. There are many more things at work between reading media than the material the media is made of itself.
Typography, ambient light, surface angle, interaction and feedback, many things that are not
necessarily innate to screen reading affect the reading experience. In my view, stripping things down and saying "screens are different from paper!" is a rather uneducated way of simplifying a nuanced topic into absolute A and B.
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Originally Posted by danbloom
This idea is not some popular obsession. It is my idea alone. I am not the public, and I represent no one but one lone blogger in Taiwan. It is my obession, not any popular obsession. The mainstream media and the public could care less about my "crusade" -- which is just ASKING A QUESTION, not mandating a new word.
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Blends and contractions get proposed nearly daily. It's not so individual as you might assume...it's a rather significant subculture that wishes to exploit the malleability of English. I'm not meaning to suggest people are conspiring to "damage" the language, just that it's a very popular trend in the digital age.
Word evolution like that of "reading" in English is a very common thing. You're in Taiwan, so you no doubt know that the modern Chinese noun for "book" 書 used to be a verb, meaning "to write".