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I blame meg ryan

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Courriel! It sounds like a brand of shampoo!

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

it carries a vulgar connotation

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobody talks to them anymore anyhow.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Comment dit-on "futile"?

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Quebec has been doing this for years. Hell they won't even call things "Birdies" or "Eagles" in golf.
How to get fined for your illegal business cards in Quebec.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Does this mean I will no longer be getting spams that read:
"Voulez-vous gagner contre dysfunction erectile?"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, academie francaise = conseillers du cnut

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah soon they wont be taking american money either

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you think they're doing just to piss the USA off again?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

watch them invent their own language or something

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I like it, it's pretty.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah! I've already integrated it into conversation at work with the only other person still here.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

They've changed their mind - before it was supposed to be un message electronique, or 'un mel' for short.

And several years ago they tried to make the WWW 'la toile de l'araignée' or 'la toile' too.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

it sounds like a tree-hugging animal. damn, dirty courriels!!

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Courriel! It sounds like a brand of shampoo!

Doesn't all French?

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah they use courriel here & of course "point com"

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Le terme québécois pour le spam est 'polluriel'. J'aime ça bien!

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

never heard that before!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 18 July 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, I might have made it up.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 July 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Gaz, courriel me privately. I have some petit fours to send you.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 July 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 19 July 2003 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

haha!

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 19 July 2003 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

it's funny that the french do this. they have a lot of anglicisms being used in their everyday lives: le weekend, le babyfoot, and so on...

― joan vich (joan vich), Saturday, 19 July 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

le hot-dog

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 19 July 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

all-dress

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 19 July 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

That's funny, I had been using "courriel" more often as I had always thought it was the preferred term, but I hear "e-mail" as well. It sounds better, indeed.
There is a lot of super cool slang & neat phonetic spelling variations of francais that I see online (prob derived from text-messaging I suppose). I'm a fan, I'll sometimes hang out and read the french hip-hop chat on Slsk, and I have to actually speak some of the phrases aloud to comprehend - and it seems, to me, more forceful and stylized even though it's the same word, such as "C koi?" instead of "C'est quoi?"

― daria g (daria g), Saturday, 19 July 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Courriel is a prettier word than e-mail. I have resolved to use it.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 20 July 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

it's certainly ridiculous, but it's above all unpronounceable (maybe you don't know it, but to join the académie française, you have to be senile)

― Bruno- (Bruno-), Monday, 21 July 2003 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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