You've got Courriel...
Jul 20, 2003 at 9:35 AM Post #2 of 16
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Jul 20, 2003 at 5:19 PM Post #4 of 16
I wish we had a movement as zealous as the French for language. The gibberish I hear when I go back home especially in IT-related matters, this mish-mash of Japanese and American is extremely annoying, especially as we have equally concise words which can be used. As the English/American language evolves to embrace new technologies, there's no reason why other languages shouldn't evolve in the same way too.


Kudos to the French (And I say that VERY rarely, especially after travelling through France or meeting our French subcontractors when my reaction is more usally "**** the French!").
 
Jul 21, 2003 at 11:34 AM Post #6 of 16
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Originally posted by fractus2
As long as it's not a tit for tat for Freedom Fries.

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Even if it is, I can't blame them. I don't think they import much American cheese.
 
Jul 21, 2003 at 12:25 PM Post #7 of 16
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Originally posted by fractus2
As long as it's not a tit for tat for Freedom Fries.


It isn't. The French have a long tradition of creating French words in the wake of technical progress, examples are "ordinateur" (hardware) or "logiciel" (software).

Also, this Freedom Fries or Freedom Toast thing is so utterly childish and silly that no-one in Europe feels the urge to sink onto the same low level and try to eliminate "American" with "colonies currently under rebellion" or the like.
 
Jul 21, 2003 at 12:43 PM Post #8 of 16
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Originally posted by Sugano-san Also, this Freedom Fries or Freedom Toast thing is so utterly childish and silly that no-one in Europe feels the urge to sink onto the same low level and try to eliminate "American" with "colonies currently under rebellion" or the like.


I don't really know what the French think about it, but I would not consider ordinary Americans sinking to any level when all they are attempting to do is to support their country's policies in any small way.
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Jul 21, 2003 at 12:57 PM Post #9 of 16
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Originally posted by fractus2
I would not consider ordinary Americans sinking to any level when all they are attempting to do is to support their country's policies in any small way.
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We're not talking "ordinary Americans" here. We're talking newspeak coming from Congress:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2842493.stm
 
Jul 21, 2003 at 1:43 PM Post #10 of 16
IMHO, I find the biggest problem here in America is that congress does not represent America.
 
Jul 21, 2003 at 3:22 PM Post #11 of 16
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Originally posted by cyberhazard
IMHO, I find the biggest problem here in America is that congress does not represent America.


Yes they do. Congess men are americans, and they represent themselves don't they? Of course they don't represent very many other folks.
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Jul 21, 2003 at 4:52 PM Post #12 of 16
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Originally posted by fractus2
France bans 'e-mail' from vocabulary


This seems like a load of merde to me. E-mail was already in common use yet they just have to change it because it isn't French. I hope they are updating those dictionaries by all their officials' desks since they all know what e-mail is but likely not courriel.

In the spirit of this, I think we should drop the "French" from french fries. They're American Fries, and we're giving the French way too much credit for something they didn't even create. And let's not even start on French toast...
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Jul 21, 2003 at 5:02 PM Post #13 of 16
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Originally posted by donovansmith
In the spirit of this, I think we should drop the "French" from french fries. They're American Fries, and we're giving the French way too much credit for something they didn't even create. And let's not even start on French toast...
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I think the French did create French fries. But we eat more of them!
 
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