From: Maximilien Noal <noal.maximilien@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:24:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: gitk : french translation
Message-ID: <4AF7DFDD.2000806@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqocncay8m.fsf_-_@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy a écrit :
> 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!