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Laukev7:
The term 'E-mail', of course. Not the actual medium.

Now it's 'courriel'. A word of our invention.    

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=518&u=/ap/20030718/ap_on_re_eu/france_out_with__e_mail__3&printer=1

lonodnboi2k3:
I have never heard such rubbish in my life. Well anyway while the rest of the world calls e-mail well erm E-mail (I Guess) the french will always be the frence and be awkward and do thinks against the grain.

But then i suppose the french like antaginising people, Take their Air Controlers for example.  Anyone who lives in England and needs to Fly over France will now exactly what i mean. Amem... nough said

jasonlane:
The French have resisted thw web in general. Back in the mid to lat e 90's they had a handset based email system (Mintel ?), the French gov was pushing this over email because, well (Mintel?) it was French. they can be like that the French. Don't get  wrong I like the French, there ok, I have no prefference over any nationality. They are funny like that though    :confused:

Laukev7:
The correct spelling is 'Minitel'. It's a sort of  proprietary, very old telephone terminal with no graphics, developped by France Telecom, and dates from before even BBS. I think Minitel also had an ancient form of websites, as well as e-mail. I heard that FT and BT are widely hated in their respective contries, althout I'm not sure why (correct me if I'm wrong).

France is not the only country that attempts to find native words. Germany, Russia and Iceland are making some efforts as well, I've heard. In German, the word 'disk space' is 'Speicher', and 'saving' is 'speichern'.

jasonlane:

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:
The correct spelling is 'Minitel'. It's a sort of  proprietary, very old telephone terminal with no graphics, developped by France Telecom, and dates from before even BBS. I think Minitel also had an ancient form of websites, as well as e-mail. I heard that FT and BT are widely hated in their respective contries, althout I'm not sure why (correct me if I'm wrong).

France is not the only country that attempts to find native words. Germany, Russia and Iceland are making some efforts as well, I've heard. In German, the word 'disk space' is 'Speicher', and 'saving' is 'speichern'.
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"Minitel", thanks
    ;)    

Yeah, everyone hates BT in the UK. Actually they have recently announced that national rate calls will be the same as local rate, yah we Brits move with the times here Laukev7.

It's very much a love hate relationship with BT, which after all is a state sponsered monopoloy.

I don't actaully think there anything wrong with different nationalities trying to "personalise" their stance on technology. After all it must really piss some people off as to how pervaisive english is now. It's already killed of so many cultures and languages. As to how successful this will actually be is another matter though. Unfortunately.

[ July 20, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]

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