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Old 07-18-2003, 02:33 PM   #1 (permalink)
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LMAO! French ban use of word "e-mail"
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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.
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Old 07-18-2003, 02:51 PM   #2 (permalink)
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What do they plan on calling it then? é-courrier?
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Old 07-18-2003, 03:03 PM   #3 (permalink)
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What do they plan on calling it then? é-courrier?
They will just call it "Electronic Mail"

Just like in any other country.

In spanish for example.

"Correo Electronico"
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Old 07-18-2003, 03:21 PM   #4 (permalink)
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LOL .... that's sort of funny Cmonster.

Lets see.... could be they switch to:

F-Mail (French mail)
FE-Mail (French Email)
Female (French woman--opps sorry got distracted)
Web-Mail
I-Mail

But heavens sake... we wouldn't want them to shorten Electronic Mail to email or e-mail or anything that saves keystrokes

English word incursion ....... sounds like a big conspiracy from the US government.... Those French have a whole dept for worrying about stupid stuff like that..... go figure.... never would have guessed.

Funny.... they don't mind the english tourist dollars, maybe that's next....... yeah right!!
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Let's go visit the E-tower!
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Old 07-18-2003, 03:47 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I guess we could go back to french fries if they promise to keep using e-mail
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Or we could call it Freedom Mail..................That should get their attention..
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While it's funny, it is not really any different from the equally silly 'Freedom Fries' trend.
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While it's funny, it is not really any different from the equally silly 'Freedom Fries' trend.
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