Please, No More Posting of the French Email Story!!!

[Admin Moderator]

For the love of God, please, I beg you- no more postings of the 'French Government Bans The Term E-Mail' story. There are already several copies up, and we've pulled many more in the past day.

Have mercy on us. I beg thee.

The same goes for the Google WMD story. Uncle!!!

Only you can prevent duplicates- please search before posting

[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?

[breakem]

http://www.yahooligans.com/reference/factbook/fr/popula.html

[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?

[Constitution Day]

Hey! It's good too see you posting again.
I am glad things went well for you!

Regards,
Constitution Day

[Glenn]

I am glad things went well for you!

I blame you guys for my good fortune. Thanks very much.

[conservativeammom]

Love your tagline......LOL

[Constitution Day]

Of course I meant it's good "TO" see you posting again... I hate is when I do that!

At any rate, you are very welcome, sir. I think there were a lot of FReepers pulling for you.

Your story particularly affected me because heart disease runs in my family and I lost an uncle whom I was very close to a few years ago.
Normally I don't take much notice of the Freeper "prayer" threads but I have to admit I was worried about you.

Take care!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

"Laissez Les Bon emails Roulet!"

[Bogey78O]

hehe...sorry. I was lampooning those who ask for easily looked up references yet post an entire vanity on it.

Like once someone asked for the president's email or who takes the presidency after Cheney in order of succession.

[MattAMiller]

It's spelled "merci."

[Howlin]

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

[breakem]

I think Bush takes the presidency after Chaney, does he not.

[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

[archy]

Already posted *here*....

[archy]

Have mercy on us. I beg thee.

Wouldn't that be have *merci* on us?

-archy-/-

[Criminal Number 18F]

Neither. It was a FReeper...

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[PistolPaknMama]

Lincoln did it.

LOL!!