[BradyLS]

my favorite "official French" phrase (if I have it right) was the clunky "communique electronique" for the handy "e-mail."

[struwwelpeter]

That communique electronique made me smile. The Russians use the word for soap - mylo - as slang for ehlekronnaya pochta. But my favorite is the slang for the '@' sympol - sobachka, "little doggie".