The word liseuse being used outside of MobileRead? - Page 12

WT Sharpe · 06-19-2010, 06:43 PM

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Moejoe · 06-19-2010, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

I'm going to start calling it a читатель personally. It's clearly the most appropriate name!

Can you pronounce that? I'd love to hear what it sounds like, because adoption is at least in part a phonetic process as well as a visual and symbolic one.

TGS · 06-19-2010, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

That's not the issue here. If you look at the title of this thread, you'll see that it's asking about the word "liseuse" being used outside MR.

Quite right, and your first comment on the thread - post #7 - was:

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I loath this word personally. Unless you're French, I can see no conceivable reason for wanting to use it. Let's hope that it dies the death that it so richly deserves.

Whatever the OP's intention, a few posts in we had moved away from the empirical question of whether the word liseuse was being used outside MR to the question of whether it should be used and individual preferences or otherwise for the word. The argument seems to proceed along the lines that, since I dislike the word, it has no chance of passing into common currency.

There seems to be no way of predicting which words will gain currency and which won't - who would have thought "USB" or "Broadband" would have gained currency?

WT Sharpe · 06-19-2010, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

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Yes, it's definitely a thumbs up for Feedbooks

Thank you, Moejoe.

And to any who haven't yet discovered Moejoe (Paul Lyons AKA PJ Lyons) as an author, you folks are in for a treat!

omk3 · 06-19-2010, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

Can you pronounce that? I'd love to hear what it sounds like, because adoption is at least in part a phonetic process as well as a visual and symbolic one.

Sounds something like chitatel(v) - the v in the end is barely heard, it seems.
It is easy to find how a russian word is pronounced if you just look at the alphabet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_alphabet.

Moejoe · 06-19-2010, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by omk3

Sounds something like chitatel(v) - the v in the end is barely heard, it seems.
It is easy to find how a russian word is pronounced if you just look at the alphabet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_alphabet.

You're talking to someone who is functionally illiterate when it comes to understanding other languages. Also, my French teacher threw a chair at me becuase I never listened. Also, I was late for my French oral exam by three hours. Also....you don't need to know the rest, although it does involve a flick knife (my brother gave to me, and also French) the French teacher's convertible car and a particularly rainy day in my youth

But thanks anyhow.

omk3 · 06-19-2010, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

You're talking to someone who is functionally illiterate when it comes to understanding other languages. Also, my French teacher threw a chair at me becuase I never listened. Also, I was late for my French oral exam by three hours. Also....you don't need to know the rest, although it does involve a flick knife (my brother gave to me, and also French) the French teacher's convertible car and a particularly rainy day in my youth

But thanks anyhow.

Especially the part with the chair!!!

Moejoe · 06-19-2010, 07:03 PM

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Especially the part with the chair!!!

I went to a Catholic school at the very end of corporal punishment in the UK. We still had the cane, the leather strap, and monks who threw chairs at you

omk3 · 06-19-2010, 07:08 PM

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I went to a Catholic school at the very end of corporal punishment in the UK. We still had the cane, the leather strap, and monks who threw chairs at you

Those were the days, eh?

I'm sure they produced very devout catholics...

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In the UK, corporal punishment was outlawed in state schools in 1987 and in all private schools by 2003.

Please tell me the latter date is wrong.

HarryT · 06-19-2010, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

Can you pronounce that? I'd love to hear what it sounds like, because adoption is at least in part a phonetic process as well as a visual and symbolic one.

It's pronounced "chit-a-tell". I think it's rather a nice word!

EDIT: Sorry - I see that omk3 has already answered you.

Moejoe · 06-19-2010, 07:10 PM

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Those were the days, eh?

I'm sure they produced very devout catholics...

Wikipedia says:

Please tell me the latter date is wrong.

Fraid not. We had it up to 1989 at the very least (no matter what the law says, because I got my last 'strap' in that year.) And Catholic school produces two things; lots of sex and atheists

TGS · 06-19-2010, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by omk3

Those were the days, eh?

I'm sure they produced very devout catholics...

Wikipedia says:

Please tell me the latter date is wrong.

It's right I'm afraid - and since then they have had to devise a whole new range of cruel and inhuman punishments.

Moejoe · 06-19-2010, 07:14 PM

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It's right I'm afraid - and since then they have had to devise a whole new range of cruel and inhuman punishments.

One of the ones they gave to me was making me stand on my tiptoes (stockinged feet) with my nose pressed up against the wall for ages. The only thing is that they did this to me after one of the operations on my leg and I came home bleeding where the stitches had ruptured. Ahh Catholic school. The fondest of memories

Moejoe · 06-19-2010, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

It's pronounced "chit-a-tell". I think it's rather a nice word!

EDIT: Sorry - I see that omk3 has already answered you.

Still a nice word though. I wouldn't mind that one either, or alongside Liseuse, although I still think Liseuse is a bit more sexy.

omk3 · 06-19-2010, 07:21 PM

I must say I'm shocked.
...

I thankfully never encountered anything of the sort in Greece. Not even close. Standing in the corner for a while was the worst that ever happened (not on tiptoes), and we usually had fun making faces at the rest of the class. People a little older than me had to endure some slapping, regretfully.

Yes chitatel sounds good too. And I'm still looking for a word in greek. There is the very very informal "diavastiri" (διαβαστήρι), which is fun, but I can't see Sony advertising their new "diavastiri" to be honest (if they ever decide to sell to Greece, that is). They'll stay with ebook reader or some awkward formal greek translation as usually happens in the world of modern technology.

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omk3 Wizard Posts: 1,454 Karma: 37243 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Europe Device: pocketbook 360, kindle 4	I must say I'm shocked. ... I thankfully never encountered anything of the sort in Greece. Not even close. Standing in the corner for a while was the worst that ever happened (not on tiptoes), and we usually had fun making faces at the rest of the class. People a little older than me had to endure some slapping, regretfully. Yes chitatel sounds good too. And I'm still looking for a word in greek. There is the very very informal "diavastiri" (διαβαστήρι), which is fun, but I can't see Sony advertising their new "diavastiri" to be honest (if they ever decide to sell to Greece, that is). They'll stay with ebook reader or some awkward formal greek translation as usually happens in the world of modern technology.