French fact #38

The French Government has banned the term “e-mail!”.

10 French Responses to “French fact #38”

  1. narcis corvette Says:

    and i am not amazed. how do they say it?

  2. Jaques-Francois Frenchhater Says:

    They call it “Courriel”.

    You can google “french e-mail ban” if you need to check that out.
    Or have a look here : http://help.yahoo.com/l/cf/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/

    Yahoo! Courriel.

  3. narcis corvette Says:

    no. i really believe you. i am a little confused, why did they banned it? probably nobody used it anyway…. like the word mouse- nobody uses it but it isn`t banned.

  4. Jaques-Francois Frenchhater Says:

    Don’t tell me you weren’t expecting this from the french ….

  5. Jacques Nicolas Victor whatever. Says:

    I know I shouldn’t be there since I am french, but still.
    I wanted to say that french people actually say “e-mail” –’
    I say it. I’ve always said it. I didn’t even know the governement banned it. But, who cares what the governement says ? Especially about random & useless stuff like that.

    PS : I don’t get the point of your site…?! You say a LOT of creepy & wrong things about a culture you obviously don’t know. Plus, I’m not sure all this crap is 100% lawful since it’s called RACIALISM. But still, I don’t care.

    (I’m sorry if I made any mistake in this comment and hurted your prideful American/English heart, but I’m only 16, I’m still LEARNING. I left my e-mail adress if you wanna uselessly complain again.)

  6. Alphonse Dans-l'tas Says:

    Yes.. New word is ” couriel ” but only oldies use it.
    Young French says ” Mail ” or ” e-mail ” …

  7. aymeric Says:

    Your link is from Quebec! You american prick… Try to understand our culture before to criticize it, fucking asshole!

  8. Mike_the_frenchy Says:

    Yeah, we say mail or e-mail.

    You tell a lot of false things about french culture on your site…

  9. Ihatefrench Says:

    Courriel sounds gay i guess that is why they banned E-mail so they can gay it up. btw i did google it and read that it is true and once more the name is so GAY

  10. Gally Says:

    Why do you call gay a word you don’t understand ? Courriel is a contraction of courrier, which means letter or mail, and électronique (I guess you’ll handle this one). Plus, calling everything gay may reveals a repressed state of mind.

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