The word liseuse being used outside of MobileRead?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by ardeegee

I used to do that (running text through multiple translations) a lot for fun-- manually, uphills both ways in the snow, before they were fancy-schmancy sites to do it for you:

http://tashian.com/multibabel/

http://translationparty.com/

clearly, it is time once again for me to post a link to this book.

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

Mark Twain's "The Jumping Frog : In English, then in French, then clawed back into the civilized language once more by patient unremunerated toil" (1865), also known as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog."

Containing the original story (in english), a french translation which was published in la Revue des Deux Mondes and which Twain finds to be a travesty of the original text, and Twain's re-translation of the french back into english, word for word (this is where things degenerate). A masterpiece of babelfishien nonsense dating from well before babelfish was even a gleam in the binary code of its creator (1903). Best appreciated if you can read both French and English, but even if you skip the french version it's truly brilliant. If you have ever translated random text using babelfish just because it's funny, don't miss this book.

As good old Samuel Clemens himself put it in his foreword "I cannot speak the French language, but I can translate very well, though not fast, I being self-educated."

also available in .imp format.

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by ardeegee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

I was thinking Bob .....

[ardeegee]

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by ardeegee

not available in my country for copyright reasons. (sheesh sony, after all i've done for you, what an ingrate !)

[astra]

Originally Posted by HarryT

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.

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Never seen any sign of the word (thankfully). And I wouldn't even mention it under gunpoint...

Originally Posted by kennyc

I hope not. I hate that silly word.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I agree 100%.

Google Translate translates this awful word into reading light. That being the case, it has no use meaning electronic eBook viewing device. It is rather silly to call a reader a reading light.

Originally Posted by dmaul1114

I'm in it too.

I just feel no need to use a foreign language term for something that's not exclusive to that culture.

Something universal like a tech gadget can have it's own label in each language.

Originally Posted by GlennD

I'm not sure how to pronounce it either, but I'd assume it rhymes with 'masseuse'. Which doesn't invoke reading to me, either. It makes me wonder who is rubbing what.

But I'm just an ignorant American.

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Hear! Hear! I second this emotion and death wish!!

Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj

I don't know French, so this word may fit perfectly there. But in English it doesn't fit and sounds bad, at least in my opinion.

We are in the same boat guys.

[astra]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

or can easily figure it out.

Precisely the reason why I hate it along with French attitude towards the word. As long as we are in the English speaking part of the forum, one must have manners and use the language of the forum. The phrase quoted above is a show of utter disrespect and lack of manners towards fellow members

[ardeegee]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

not available in my country for copyright reasons. (sheesh sony, after all i've done for you, what an ingrate !)

Transcript:

http://geargab.kingwho.com/?p=57

Maybe one of the many other video links will work.

[dmaul1114]

Originally Posted by astra

We are in the same boat guys.

I'm in it too.

I just feel no need to use a foreign language term for something that's not exclusive to that culture.

Something universal like a tech gadget can have it's own label in each language.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by astra

Precisely the reason why I hate it along with French attitude towards the word. As long as we are in the English speaking part of the forum, one must have manners and use the language of the forum. The phrase quoted above is a show of utter disrespect and lack of manners towards fellow members

Balderdash! What in four shades of a batsman's crease does a French attitude even mean?

[weatherwax]

I did not see that someone wanted to make "liseuse" the only term to be used for ebook reading devices in all languages. So where is the problem?

In my opinion it sounds nice, maybe not if pronounced leesoose . And it's a wrong or right as ebook (isn't that the thing I read using my ebook reading device? after all I do not call my mp3 player "sound" either), ebook reader (someone who reads ebooks or maybe the device used to read audiobooks?) or any of the other synonyms currently in use.

As mentioned before this is just my opinion and I don't mind if someone thinks differently.

[astra]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Balderdash! What in four shades of a batsman's crease does a French attitude even mean?

I would answer your question and correct my incorrectly expressed thoughts, however, it cannot be done now in the light of your jerky reply.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by astra

I would answer your question and correct my incorrectly expressed thoughts, however, it cannot be done now in the light of your jerky reply.

Ahh, what is jerky reply is that the name of a competing Liseuse? Oh, and your boat is leaking.

[astra]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Oh, and your boat is leaking.

Yeah. Rats leave it first.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by astra

Yeah. Rats leave it first.

Damn, you're a chirpy one aren't you, little Skylark.

Here's some Non-English for you in the English portion of this site:

Alouette, gentille Alouette
Alouette, je te plumerai

[vivaldirules]

Oh, please! Let's not do this. We need to save our slings and arrows for the DRM/aPpLe/Publishers/DonutOrDoughnut/Copyright/Piracy wars. Not for something so trivial as a word. Let me mediate and suggest we agree to not talk about it any more for now. It will come up again in six months, I'm sure.