let's get liseuse recognized as a real word

[kennyc]

I don't know, I hear the wikipolice were out if force these days.

[K-Thom]

Couldn't we just stick to the German term "elektronisches Lesegerät"?

This is a beautiful and explanatory mixture of words as only the German language could create. No double meaning, no misconception. No fun either, but then we're talking about the German language ...

Definitely nobody outside the German-speaking world will ever be able to pronounce it correctly, thus it beats "liseuse" (in German: lisöhs) easily in the first round by technical knockout.

We could even shorten it to "eleles".

[Patricia]

Where did I put my darllenwr chan llyfrau?
I want to upload an e-llyfr.

Somehow, I suspect that German is easier to pronounce than Welsh.

[Daithi]

My admittedly abysmal command of Irish gives us léitheoir leictreonacha as another option.

[Kostas]

Originally Posted by Verencat

Just so we're clear on this: if liseuse ever gets accepted by wikipedia, it'll just be a nice, cute article that will make some of us smile, and the rest will not be affected at all, right? No wikipedia police force will slap our fingers (or worse) if we use the term e-book reader, right?

Languages are beautiful, flexible and evolving; the day a language stop transforming is the day it dies. Let's play with words and be merry!

I could even add:
"Je me demande si je ne suis pas en train de jouer avec les mots. Et si les mots étaient faits pour ça?"
Boris Vian
(sorry, can't translate)

[Verencat]

Originally Posted by K-Thom

elektronisches Lesegerät

Originally Posted by Patricia

darllenwr chan llyfrau - e-llyfr.

Originally Posted by Daithi

léitheoir leictreonacha

I'm liking all of those!
K-Thom, German is beautiful as per it's inventive character: words like glühbirne (lightbulb, glüh=light and birne=pear) are so poetic!

Originally Posted by Kostas

I could even add:
"Je me demande si je ne suis pas en train de jouer avec les mots. Et si les mots étaient faits pour ça?"
Boris Vian
(sorry, can't translate)

Will I dare soil Vian's words?
"I wonder if I am playing with words. What if words were made for that?

[montsnmags]

In Australia, they're called "Wotth'bloodyhellareyadoinwiththatcomputathingamyB ruceandwhyaren'yyadrinkinbeerandwatchinthefootyyab igpoof!" (or "Beer Coaster" for short).

Cheers,
Marc (It's possible I just made this up)

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

In Australia, they're called "Wotth'bloodyhellareyadoinwiththatcomputathingamyB ruceandwhyaren'yyadrinkinbeerandwatchinthefootyyab igpoof!" (or "Beer Coaster" for short).

Cheers,
Marc (It's possible I just made this up)

Thought so.

[arit]

There needs to be a word for it. "Dedicated ebook reading device" is too clunky. We are referring to a piece of hardware for which there is currently no accepted word to describe.

Let's call them "Derd"s. I like reading ebooks on my derd. Derds for everyone!


I loaded some eBooks on my derd.

I am reading a really good eBook using my derd.

eBooks are what one reads using a derd.

Yay, it works!

[nomesque]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

(It's possible I just made this up)

GAH!!!! As I read that, I heard my father saying it. I wish you HAD made it up...

[acidzebra]

I wonder, will the day come when we will just call them "books"? These days, when I tell people that I will send them mail, nobody expects a written letter.

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Patricia

Where did I put my darllenwr chan llyfrau?
I want to upload an e-llyfr.

Somehow, I suspect that German is easier to pronounce than Welsh.

But I love Welsh! I just wish I could read it

Originally Posted by acidzebra

I wonder, will the day come when we will just call them "books"? These days, when I tell people that I will send them mail, nobody expects a written letter.

I already do... I'm reading books. In Dutch, you can often see the word "plankje" (aka, small wooden board).

[Superlucky]

Originally Posted by acidzebra

I wonder, will the day come when we will just call them "books"? These days, when I tell people that I will send them mail, nobody expects a written letter.

True, but everyone I know calls email "email", not "mail". The word "mail" can now substitute for "email", but it hasn't taken its place.

[K-Thom]

Or we could call it "ready" (pronounce reed-y, just in case).

A mobile phone is a "handy" in German.
Don't know who ever came up with this term, but it's short, and German people associated the "hand" with it (please don't ask what we used to hold a telephone handset all those years before ...).

I never experienced the look of a native English speaker when a German asked him or her for her "handy"; it didn't seem to have caused any diplomatic conflicts, though. Just keep it in mind before internationalizing "liseuse". You may start a war just by accident!

So I'm whole-heartedly suggesting "ready". Case closed.

[ravenne]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

"Wotth'bloodyhellareyadoinwiththatcomputathingamyB ruceandwhyaren'yyadrinkinbeerandwatchinthefootyyab igpoof!" (or "Beer Coaster" for short).

Oh, I like that one!!

Originally Posted by acidzebra

I wonder, will the day come when we will just call them "books"? These days, when I tell people that I will send them mail, nobody expects a written letter.

Wouldn't that be a bit boring! What would we discuss in the lounge?

Originally Posted by K-Thom

Or we could call it "ready" (pronounce reed-y, just in case).

A mobile phone is a "handy" in German.

Some of the handies (e.g. iPhone) are quite handy since they are ready to also be used as readies.