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.

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!!!

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

A debunking of the story can be found in a discussion beginning at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unicod...19948?expand=1.

Dumb American news media.

The French government (and many other governments) had the minimal
intelligence necessary to see through lies about buying uranium and
weapons of mass destruction.

So write scurrilous and inaccurate acounts to try to make them look
absurd in other ways.


Jim Allan

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helmsman wrote in message . ..
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!!!

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

I don't really care what the French do, how they do it or why.

I hope the USofA will have nothing further to do with them. I'll stay
the hell out of there.

Burr

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.

Burr wrote in
:

I don't really care what the French do, how they do it or why.

I hope the USofA will have nothing further to do with them.
I'll stay the hell out of there.

Burr

Interesting ... so I suppose the rest of the world should boycott the
USofA and the UK now that they all know that the main reasons for the
intervention were exagerated and/or fabricated.

Our soldiers are dying needlessly one by one and there is no end in
sight. My daughter is one of them out there. We should get out and
let them handle their own mess. There is no way that we will be able
to impose our way of life into that society.

--
The Traveller,
San Diego, California

I agree with you %100, we should have never gone in there in the first
place. France has always not liked the USA, long before this mideast thing.

I don't see anyway for us to save face or win or anything. WE SHOULD
HAVE NEVER GONE IN. If you read back you'll see I said that long before
we went to war.


Burr



The Traveller wrote:
Burr wrote in
:


I don't really care what the French do, how they do it or why.

I hope the USofA will have nothing further to do with them.
I'll stay the hell out of there.

Burr


Interesting ... so I suppose the rest of the world should boycott the
USofA and the UK now that they all know that the main reasons for the
intervention were exagerated and/or fabricated.

Our soldiers are dying needlessly one by one and there is no end in
sight. My daughter is one of them out there. We should get out and
let them handle their own mess. There is no way that we will be able
to impose our way of life into that society.

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 05:44:21 GMT, The Traveller
wrote:

Burr wrote in
:

I don't really care what the French do, how they do it or why.

I hope the USofA will have nothing further to do with them.
I'll stay the hell out of there.

Burr

Interesting ... so I suppose the rest of the world should boycott the
USofA and the UK now that they all know that the main reasons for the
intervention were exagerated and/or fabricated.

Our soldiers are dying needlessly one by one and there is no end in
sight. My daughter is one of them out there. We should get out and
let them handle their own mess. There is no way that we will be able
to impose our way of life into that society.

You are correct of course. Wait till some despot controls eastern oil
and you have to walk to work or freeze. Sadam tried to kill George
the first. That in and of itself "is an act of WAR!
Anyone not backing our cause and backing the enemy is a 5th columnist.

The next time take a book out of the library the
feds will know what you are reading.
http://www.ala.org/Content/Navigatio...atriot_Act.htm

A Second Look at the word "mail"

[Middle English male, bag, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]
- - - Mail, n. [OE. male bag, OF. male, F. malle bag,

How Oh So French of the French . . .
- - - Only the French would Object to a 'word' of French Origin !


~ RHF
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= = = wrote in message ...
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.

(Radioman390) wrote in message ...
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.

Please explain... what does this have to do with the topic which is shortwave radio.

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