Re: [OT] Re: gitk : french translation
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> Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:
>
>> It's like those stu**d people who decided that "email" was too hard to
>> translate. So they declared that "email" was "imél" in French.
>
> This one is not _as_ stupid as it seems to be. It's not "imél", it's
> "mél.", and it's a shortcut for "messagerie électronique", like "tél."
> is a shortcut for "téléphone" (the kind of things to put on your visit
> card or on the header of a letter).
>
> http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/dglf/mel.htm
>
mél is ugly as hell to the ear.
Courriel sounds way better!