Sorry Eugene, but you're a little behind the times (so is CNN). The French have been using "courriel" and "mel" ever since e-mail became a regular everyday thing. The only new thing here is that it has become the standard phrase, that's all.

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Hehe as someone on Fark stated, this sure shows us to change french toast to freedom toast ... oh wait, we never instituted a ban on the word.

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"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.

Cough *BULLSHIT* Cough

Edit: I'll steal and post this too ...

The article says the term "courriel" is being used almost as much as "e-mail" ? .. I call bullshiat..

Let Google decide:

Courriel site:.fr: 64,200 hits
"e-mail" site:.fr: 1,430,000 hits
email site:.fr: 1,040,000 hits"

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Retro ...

The french have been scared for a long time that English/American cultur is going to overtake theirs. They've done stuff like this for a long time.

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Originally posted by davedresden oh my fucking god i die, dave

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But for well-known French pornographer John B. Root, the problem is not one of genre, but of the poor quality of many of today's porn movies. "No one would have thought to make porn the scapegoat for society's ills if it offered amusing, well-made films, aphrodisiac works, stories of desire and of pleasure," Root wrote in an impassioned appeal against the proposed ban. "Its subject matter is physical love — a subject that has offered masterpieces to painting, sculpture and literature."

Ahhh there's no greater masterpiece than a girl getting the money shot right in the face! Oh well sucks for people in France ...

/wonders what's even left on french tv if they take away all the porno

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Originally posted by occrider /wonders what's even left on french tv if they take away all the porno

Commercials

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Originally posted by occrider Ahhh there's no greater masterpiece than a girl getting the money shot right in the face! Oh well sucks for people in France ... /wonders what's even left on french tv if they take away all the porno

har. you americans...

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sorry guys, but everyone here is wrong. and Eugene you must be a moron!! What are your qualifications as a linguist?? moreover, as a french linguist.

At office, and in my personnal life, my coworkers and I use "courriel" all the time. In the media and everywhere else, its courriel.

Courriel is short for Courrier Electronique i.e. Electronic Mail.

You guys can't just judge another language from an 'english' perspective, be it the French language or any other.

Basically the french govt (like any other goddamn govt) wants one word to designate one thing not 2 or 3 or 20 words. This makes law writing, and official documents easier to write and more standardized.

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Originally posted by ahlamalek sorry guys, but everyone here is wrong. and Eugene you must be a moron!! What are your qualifications as a linguist?? moreover, as a french linguist. At office, and in my personnal life, my coworkers and I use "courriel" all the time. In the media and everywhere else, its courriel. Courriel is short for Courrier Electronique i.e. Electronic Mail. You guys can't just judge another language from an 'english' perspective, be it the French language or any other. Basically the french govt (like any other goddamn govt) wants one word to designate one thing not 2 or 3 or 20 words. This makes law writing, and official documents easier to write and more standardized.

But malek, remember!! Les Francais n'utilisent pas le mot americain, alors ils sont les idiots : !! Les americains ont des problemes, ont doit les aider!!

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What better time than now?
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haha tu parles francais!! alors c'est quand que tu va venir a montreal ?

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Originally posted by Eugene We've all heard and seen enough anti-US, America-bashing rhetoric on these forums.

I haven’t!