Screaning? Screading? Screening? (Which word fits best?)
Screaning?
Screading?
Screening?
(Which word fits the need here best?)
I am beginning to think that SCREENING does not work so well, as many have argued and told me politely in polite emails, including Dr Marvin Minsky at the MIT Media Lab, since the word screening has many earlier meanings, multiple meanings, from screening movies to screening cancer patients to screening job applicants. So I am beginning to see the light, and have become persuaded that SCREENING just does not work here. Okay, good points all.
So others have suggested SCREADING, a portmanteau word combining screen + read to make SCREADING. Many have suggested this word. To be honest, I don't like it so much because it SOUNDS harsh, the D sound is very strong here, and it reminds me of the word SCREED, as in ''what is your screed?''...... and SCREADING when sounded out sounds like it is SCREAMING its name......but as a portmanteau word, yes, it works fine.
Then the other day, I tried SCREANING.....first I wrote it down, and then I said it out loud. I like it.
Let's go with SCREANING for now.
Of course, the final word that our society will choose for reading on screens will be up to everyone involved, and no one person can coin the word. It will arrive un-announced?
What will that word be?
Maybe screaning? maybe screading? not screening? Maybe screening...
Who knows?
The main thing is A NEW WORD would be helpful and useful in studying the differences between reading on paper and reading on a screen.
Most people agree that a new word MIGHT be useful for study purposes. But of course, reading is reading. We don't need a new word right away. But I can see a new word for this coming down the information highway....anyday.....now.......
SOON!
Screading?
Screening?
(Which word fits the need here best?)
I am beginning to think that SCREENING does not work so well, as many have argued and told me politely in polite emails, including Dr Marvin Minsky at the MIT Media Lab, since the word screening has many earlier meanings, multiple meanings, from screening movies to screening cancer patients to screening job applicants. So I am beginning to see the light, and have become persuaded that SCREENING just does not work here. Okay, good points all.
So others have suggested SCREADING, a portmanteau word combining screen + read to make SCREADING. Many have suggested this word. To be honest, I don't like it so much because it SOUNDS harsh, the D sound is very strong here, and it reminds me of the word SCREED, as in ''what is your screed?''...... and SCREADING when sounded out sounds like it is SCREAMING its name......but as a portmanteau word, yes, it works fine.
Then the other day, I tried SCREANING.....first I wrote it down, and then I said it out loud. I like it.
Let's go with SCREANING for now.
Of course, the final word that our society will choose for reading on screens will be up to everyone involved, and no one person can coin the word. It will arrive un-announced?
What will that word be?
Maybe screaning? maybe screading? not screening? Maybe screening...
Who knows?
The main thing is A NEW WORD would be helpful and useful in studying the differences between reading on paper and reading on a screen.
Most people agree that a new word MIGHT be useful for study purposes. But of course, reading is reading. We don't need a new word right away. But I can see a new word for this coming down the information highway....anyday.....now.......
SOON!

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