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Please, No More Posting of the French Email Story!!!
Posted on 07/18/2003 1:01:05 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
Edited on 07/19/2003 6:53:59 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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To: Admin Moderator
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posted on
07/18/2003 1:08:06 PM PDT
by
nothingnew
(the pendulum swings and the libs are in the pit)
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To: Admin Moderator
Shouldn't that be 'French Government Bans The Term Oui-Mail' ?
To: Zavien Doombringer
This thread simply would not be complete without the following:
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
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posted on
07/18/2003 1:09:26 PM PDT
by
TheBigB
(In the immortal words of Freddy Mercury..."FLASH...Ahh-AHHHHH!...he's a miracle!")
To: Diddle E. Squat
already posted ...here
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posted on
07/18/2003 1:09:39 PM PDT
by
ChadsDad
(I got yer probable cause right here.)
To: johniegrad
Or a thread debating if Ted Nugent was on pot when he wrote the Bad American article with the help of Carlin and Dennis Miller that shows up when you hit "I Feel Lucky" on Google with "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and has been posted at least five hundred times that we probably should move to chat but instead can have posted to breaking, activism, and every single freakin' state in the blessed U.S. of A?
Now that would be something we need.
To: Admin Moderator
Lincoln did it.
To: Admin Moderator
Whew, I'm glad you posted this or I'd have missed the whole thing!
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posted on
07/18/2003 1:10:10 PM PDT
by
agrace
To: Admin Moderator
I heard that George Carlin wrote the French version of Email....
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posted on
07/18/2003 1:10:23 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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To: Admin Moderator
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This is the thread police ....you are on report for wasting bandwidth....don't make us come back here again..
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posted on
07/18/2003 1:10:51 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: Admin Moderator
Now that would be something we need BWAHAHAHAHA! Start a thread. I dare ya. :)
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posted on
07/18/2003 1:11:06 PM PDT
by
TheBigB
(In the immortal words of Freddy Mercury..."FLASH...Ahh-AHHHHH!...he's a miracle!")
To: Admin Moderator
Comin' up, AM.....
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posted on
07/18/2003 1:11:13 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: Cathryn Crawford
LOL, ever see Tommy Boy? No one bellows "for the love of God" like Chris Farley in bikini underwear.
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posted on
07/18/2003 1:11:34 PM PDT
by
agrace
To: Admin Moderator
Or a thread debating if Ted Nugent was on pot when he wrote the Bad American article with the help of Carlin and Dennis Miller that shows up when you hit "I Feel Lucky" on Google with "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and has been posted at least five hundred times that we probably should move to chat but instead can have posted to breaking, activism, and every single freakin' state in the blessed U.S. of A? Now that would be something we need.
Nah, we don't need that.
To: Admin Moderator
Sniff... we're always getting yelled at... sniffle...
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posted on
07/18/2003 1:13:08 PM PDT
by
Tamzee
(Peace is the prerogative of the victorious, not the vanquished.... Churchill)
To: Admin Moderator; All
What's France?
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posted on
07/18/2003 1:13:08 PM PDT
by
jriemer
(We are a Republic not a Democracy)
To: Admin Moderator
BREAKING NEWS..... Did you all see this??? French Government Bans Term 'E-Mail' JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press PARIS - Goodbye "e-mail," the French government says, and hello "courriel" - the term that linguistically sensitive France is now using to refer to electronic mail in official documents. The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of "e-mail" in all government ministries, documents, publications or Web sites, the latest step to stem an incursion of English words into the French lexicon. The ministry's General Commission on Terminology and Neology insists Internet surfers in France are broadly using the term "courrier electronique" (electronic mail) instead of e-mail - a claim some industry experts dispute. "Courriel" is a fusion of the two words. "Evocative, with a very French sound, the word 'courriel' is broadly used in the press and competes advantageously with the borrowed 'mail' in English," the commission has ruled. The move to ban "e-mail" was announced last week after the decision was published in the official government register on June 20. Courriel is a term that has often been used in French-speaking Quebec, the commission said. The 7-year-old commission has links to the Academie Francaise, the prestigious institution that has been one of the top opponents of allowing English terms to seep into French. Some Internet industry experts say the decision is artificial and doesn't reflect reality. "The word 'courriel' is not at all actively used," Marie-Christine Levet, president of French Internet service provider Club Internet, said Friday. "E-mail has sunk in to our values." She said Club Internet wasn't changing the words it uses. "Protecting the language is normal, but e-mail's so assimilated now that no one thinks of it as American," she said. "Courriel would just be a new word to launch." hee hee
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posted on
07/18/2003 1:14:00 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Runs with scissors.....)
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