[HairOfTheDog]

What French email story? Did I miss something?

[Houmatt]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

You are evil, moderator! You hear me?!? Evil! EVIL!!

[FreedomCalls]

But it's such a hugh story. It's vey series.

[Genesis defender]

Who's that Freeper that always used to post the message "already posted here"?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Hey! Didja hear that France banned the term email? I think I'll put up a thread....

[DoctorMichael]

Voulez vous Courriel avec moi, c'est twa.

(sp?)

[Fighting Irish]

[GOPJ]

bump

[CIB-173RDABN]

How about post from Willie Green?

[woofie]

What story? I missed it

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, this is the most exciting thread of a dull news day!

[gitmo]

Admin Moderator makes a hugh point.

[Bogey78O]

Can anyone tell me what the population of France is. Sorry for the vanity.

[Chad Fairbanks]

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."

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[dts32041]

What french e-mail thing, haven't seen a post about it yet.

Is it something important or is it something in the ban posting guideleines.

What do you know about french e-mail and when did you know it?

[Glenn]

If the US would get out of the 1700's and have its own Culture Ministry, they could declare multiple posts to be against the laws of culture and we wouldn't have this little problem, now, would we?

[Howlin]

Just for you -- and your little kitties, too!

[strela]

Have mercy on us. I beg thee.

Mercy is not a policy we practice around here ;)

But your point is well taken. I have been guilty of duping threads in the past as well.

[Howlin]

Hmmm.....the last one didn't work for some reason so