Well, yea, but the funniest damn thing that leaves me ROTFL is that the word
"mail" was originally derived from, you guessed it, a French word.

MJC

"RHF" wrote in message
om...
Had the French simply used a shortened contraction of "courrier
electronique"
[e-Cour]; then the may have seen the light in modern communication.
But to try and tell the young people that "courrier electronique" or
"Courriel" is faster and easier to type and use that e-Mail or
[e-Cour] is just plain stupid. (Pardon My French !)

Today's Youth who are use to Celphone "Text Messaging" are not going
to use 17 or 9 key strokes when they can communicate the same meaning
in 5 key strokes that are understood around the world.

The French do not understand that they are no longer a Military, Trade
or Cultural Power in this new Century.


~ RHF
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On 18 Jul 2003 23:07:12 GMT, (Radioman390) wrote:

PARIS (AP) - Goodbye ``e-mail'', the French government says, and hello
``courriel'' - the term that linguistically sensitive France is now
using to
refer to electronic mail in official documents.

The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of ``e-mail'' in
all
government ministries, documents, publications or Web sites, the latest
step to
stem an incursion of English words into the French lexicon.

The ministry's General Commission on Terminology and Neology insists
Internet
surfers in France are broadly using the term ``courrier electronique''
(electronic mail) instead of e-mail - a claim some industry experts
dispute.
``Courriel'' is a fusion of the two words.

Dumb FROGS!!!

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BOYCOTT French made products & DON'T vacation in France!