Sunday, September 13, 2009

Screading

In an informal survey of members of a mailing list related to linguistics, readers were asked what word they might suggest to stand for reading on a screen, to differ this from reading on paper......and without any prodding or prompting...without suggesting any word at all........all 14 people who wrote in, independently from each other, and not discussing this on any forum.....all 14 suggested the word:

SCREADING

Do we have a trend here? The word "screening" was not mentioned in the query and was not once nominated. SCREADING was listed 14 times, all independently. I'd say there is something to this for the New York Times David Pogue to consider now....

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