{"id":4693,"date":"2003-07-18T13:10:51","date_gmt":"2003-07-18T20:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4693"},"modified":"2003-07-18T13:10:51","modified_gmt":"2003-07-18T20:10:51","slug":"what_next_freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/18\/what_next_freed.html","title":{"rendered":"What next, “Freedom Fries”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever-sensitive to non-French terms slipping into French, the government in Paris is banning e-mail. No, not banning electronic communication, banning the English word “e-mail.”<\/a><\/p>\n

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.
\nThe 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.
\nThe 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.
\n“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.<\/p>\n

An unscientific (but plausible) review of the words in Google on French domains would seem to differ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don’t suppose if it was mentioned that the word “mail<\/a>” passed into English via French that it would make any difference.<\/p>\n

Ah, well. C’est la vie.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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