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French Government bans email.
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:09:52 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei () rsasecurity com> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:22:10 -0400 To: "'dave () farber net'" <dave () farber net> Subject: French Government bans email. For your amusement, and IP's.... Googling on 'email courriel french' provides many confirming reports - this is real. Interestingly, 'courriel' turns out to be Quebecois in origin, so the Academe Francais is just replacing one foreign loanword with another. The earliest online references I can turn up are in 1994. Peter ---------------------------------------- http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6729751%255E13762,00.html French Government bans email
From a correspondent in Paris
July 10, 2003 THE French government, in a bid to turn back the tide of English words in the field of technology, has banned its civil service from using the term "email" instead of its approved French equivalent, the culture minister announced. All government ministries, websites, publications and documents must now use "courriel" - a shortening of "courrier electronique" (literally: electronic mail) - when they are referring to the messages sent via the internet, the ministry said in a statement. The move, made law by its publication in the official government gazette on June 20, will put the French administration out of step with the majority of the French public, who still prefer to use "email" to communicate between computer accounts. Agence France-Presse ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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