From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:39:05 GMT
Subject: [OT] Re: gitk : french translation
Message-ID: <vpqocncay8m.fsf_-_@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0911082010590.16711@xanadu.home>

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

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/