Comments on: French fact #38

By: Gally

Gally — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:11:00 +0000

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.

By: Ihatefrench

Ihatefrench — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:27:17 +0000

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

By: Mike_the_frenchy

Mike_the_frenchy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:11:59 +0000

Yeah, we say mail or e-mail.

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

By: aymeric

aymeric — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:58:44 +0000

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

By: Alphonse Dans-l'tas

Alphonse Dans-l'tas — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:14:54 +0000

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

By: Jacques Nicolas Victor whatever.

Jacques Nicolas Victor whatever. — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:25:39 +0000

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.)

By: Jaques-Francois Frenchhater

Jaques-Francois Frenchhater — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:13:28 +0000

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

By: narcis corvette

narcis corvette — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:55:19 +0000

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.

By: Jaques-Francois Frenchhater

Jaques-Francois Frenchhater — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:55:03 +0000

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.

By: narcis corvette

narcis corvette — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:15:15 +0000

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