July 21, 2003
France Bans the Term "E-Mail"
Linguistic silliness to my mind – Yanks took "freedom fries", now France is trying to protect the French language by trying to drop "e-mail" for the French fusion "courriel":
France Bans the Term "E-Mail"
Posted by Ant at 06:12 PM
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Hey,makes sense to me! (What is an e-mail?)
I thought courriel was the french word for e-mail all along. That's what all the francophones I know call it.
No e in front of courriel now?
Linguistic silliness to my mind – Yanks took "freedom fries", now France is trying to protect the French language by trying to drop "e-mail" for the French fusion "courriel":
Comment by Ronald Reagan on October 3, 2003 04:13 PM
Hey,makes sense to me! (What is an e-mail?)
Comment by Neil on October 12, 2003 09:57 PM
I thought courriel was the french word for e-mail all along. That's what all the francophones I know call it.
Comment by Al Gold on October 29, 2003 09:53 PM
I thought so also.
Comment by David on October 29, 2003 09:55 PM
No e in front of courriel now?
Comment by Jerry on December 10, 2003 02:29 AM
Linguistic silliness to my mind – Yanks took "freedom fries", now France is trying to protect the French language by trying to drop "e-mail" for the French fusion "courriel":