Case in point:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/te...view.html?_r=0
Quote:
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“Oh, yeah?” says Amazon’s Kindle team. “Well, you know the Nook with a self-illuminated screen that you introduced in April? We have one with a better backlight. Take that!”
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It seems a pretty intuitive term to me. Backlighting means it lights up from the *back*. I'm especially surprised to see this from someone who's entire job is writing about electronic devices.
Oh well, back to your regularly scheduled program...