What do you think of the name "liseuse?"

[Sparrow]

Let's not forget French has a long history of enriching English.

[EowynCarter]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

Oh, just a note to those people talking about using loan words for things which originated in the country whose language is being used :
- Cytale, a french company, creator of the Cybook, predecessor of Bookeen, was founded in Paris in 1998.
- Mobipocket is a french company, founded in Paris in 2000.
- Feedbooks is more recent but arguably unique, and is french.
I don't know whether any of these were "first" but they do show at least a significant history here.

Oh didn't know feedbooks and mobipocket where french. Or that Jacques Attali wad one of Cytale's founder.

[dmikov]

gonne

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by dmikov

Wow, you got me pegged. Amazing considering you don't know anything about me. Clairvoiance at it's best. But I would go with demagoguery though.




On the off-chance you are confused, let me explain the majority opinion matters little to me too, unless I came to interact or work with those people, then respecting majority of them and their opinion is the thing to do.
That's pretty common, unless you are a plain a-hole, I guess.

Not confused in the slightest. Respecting a majority opinion is not the same as agreeing with said opinion. Majorities of any kind disturb me, as they should any thinking person. And so does the common. The common is halfway between this and that, it's middle of the road, it's beige at its very core.

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i'm pretty sure a few years ago most would have said that "ebook" was not a real word, either. and i'd be curious to know how many of these words are in, say, the OED, and when they entered.

I do not know anything about the paper version, but they do have the correct usage of "e-book" on their web site.
http://www.askoxford.com/languages/c...books/?view=uk

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by Jellby

And the "e" is for "elektron", which means "amber" in Greek?

However, that is a very logical word evolution, since the first man made manifestation of electrons resulted from rubbing amber on wool to produce "static electricity".

[Jadon]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

I'd welcome a word that was universally accepted

Then I'd think Esperanto would be your best option. "To read" is "legi" and "ilo" is the suffix meaning "device", so I'd guess a reading device would most likely be "legilo". The 'g' is hard, as in 'get', not 'gin'. Or maybe "librilo", a device for books.

[ardeegee]

Esperanto? Pshaw. How about Loglan? Or Nalgol?

[AprilHare]

iLiseuse?

[Salgueiros]

For the sake of preserving intact and in good shape and spirits all the linguistic prides here, i propose we all to adopt a portuguese word for it, elegant, pretty and equally hard to spell and say both for francophones and anglophones.

Hey, we (european portugueeeezers) are only 10 million so no need to feel threatened any of you.

[Phogg]

I'm just talkin' wit' some bad grammar.

[CleverClothe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

CleverClothe, where has anyone been "forced" to use the word liseuse here ? please stop exagerrating.

If you read a word (or hear it), then you are using it. In fact, much of the college entrance exam that I took was testing me on my knowledge of words that I would probably never write or speak myself.

Now, I started posting because some people deny doing something that they are obviously doing. So we are arguing about facts, rather than discussing whether the word should be used.

There are a number of people that want "liseuse" to be used, so let them give reason for its use, instead of denying their desire to promote it.

Some people in this thread have done that, and that is good. Let us continue that.

[CleverClothe]

Originally Posted by Jadon

Then I'd think Esperanto would be your best option. "To read" is "legi" and "ilo" is the suffix meaning "device", so I'd guess a reading device would most likely be "legilo". The 'g' is hard, as in 'get', not 'gin'. Or maybe "librilo", a device for books.

So, what is "book" or "e-book"?

[booksonthemove]

I thought that la liseuse means "the reader" as in someone who reads, rather than a reading device...

I think ebook is better.

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by booksonthemove

I thought that la liseuse means "the reader" as in someone who reads, rather than a reading device...

So does "reader". The device doesn't read, after all, it only displays things on its screen.