France commits idiotic act to try to show it is superior to America... bans "e-mail"

[Combat Ingrid]

In Sweden, we are supposed to call it "mejl" or "e-post"

[TCO]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
"less practical" not "impractical" Practicality is a spectrum, not either/or.

...Like you did last summer...let's twist again!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by TCO


...Like you did last summer...let's twist again!

says a man with no answer.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid
Similar language-preserving activities are going on in Sweden too and presumably in many other countries as well. Yet it's apparently only the French that are the chauvinistic morons.

Being rather ignorant on this issue, I ask you to please explain to me why it's so bad only in the case of France and not other countries? I never heard anyone talking about "Sweden commits idiotic act to show it is superior to America blah blah blah"

Ok, you suck too. Feel better now? We have to prioritze which socialist Euro country we taunt, ok? France is more important than you.

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by TCO
France is more important than you.

No it isn't

[TCO]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Stop it. We'll all be agreeing soon.

Nah. We'll still have Boris around to disagree with. He never admits defeat.

It's not really sex if you're wearing a condom...

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by TCO
Ok, you suck too. Feel better now? We have to prioritze which socialist Euro country we taunt, ok? France is more important than you.

Exactly.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


says a man with no answer.

You've got to be kidding me. I think your point is strained to the point of weaselishness. If people use it, its damn practical.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

I'm not saying you're bashing them. But I do think there is opportunism present in this thread. Especially in overreaction and calling it a death of free speech in France...

I'd have to agree with this. For the record, I don't think this is the death of free speech in France or anything else as equally absurd. It's just a silly decision made because of France's overwhelming belief in the superiority and purity of their own language (a pet peeve of mine).

It's not out of an 'overwhelming belief in the superiority and purity of their own language'. It's to preserve their own language and culture. I know this is hard for you to understand, since you come from the "great melting pot" where cultures are melted down and used to make coke cans and celluloid, but some people actually respect and cherish their heritage.

[Drake Tungsten]

It's not really sex if you're wearing a condom...

That's what my baby's mama said.

[Drake Tungsten]

It's not out of an 'overwhelming belief in the superiority and purity of their own language'

Go to your local library. Pick up some books. Come back when you've learned something.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Osweld


It's not out of an 'overwhelming belief in the superiority and purity of their own language'. It's to preserve their own language and culture. I know this is hard for you to understand, since you come from the "great melting pot" where cultures are melted down and used to make coke cans and celluloid, but some people actually respect and cherish their heritage.

Culture sucks. Kultur is the thing of the Nazis. **** culture.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by TCO
You've got to be kidding me. I think your point is strained to the point of weaselishness. If people use it, its damn practical.

Practical or not isn't the issue, it's more or less practical. Are you stipulating that everyone uses the most practical means available to do something? I've already shown how that is not the case. Hell, human history would be a lot different had early farmers adopted the most practical means of cultivation rather than the ones they did.

I didn't say e-mail was impractical, just less practical, linguistically, than courriel for the French. Impractical is your strawman, not mine.

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by TCO


Kultur is the thing of the Nazis.

Badly wrong.

Who said : when I hear the world Kultur I take my gun ?

3rd Reich Minister of Propaganda Goebbels.

You should revise some ideas of yours.

[PLATO]

By DAVOUT:

In an above post I explained why, technically, e-mail cannot be adopted as a French word; but many others are adopted as they are written in english when there is no satisfactory equivalent. I discovered recently that happening is now a French word, because we were unable to build an equivalent meaning with the French language tools.

By Boris:

It's setting a government policy. So what? My company has policies dictating what language I can and can't use in correspondence.

By Krazyhorse:

How does it impact free speech when it applies only to government publications?

By GePap:

And on the notion that usgae should dictate what is used: goernments can seelct to use anyting they crae to: they ae not attempting to force the population to change usage, so there is nothing wrong with this, excep that it riles the French haters here.

But...

By Drake:

The article says the change was made to help stem an influx of English words.

By Osweld:

It's to preserve their own language and culture.

So, The conclusion I draw is that I am wrong on assuming that this may be an impediment on free and unfettered speech.

On the cultural issue I have no argument. It s their culture and is, in fact, quite worthy of being preserved.

End of argument on my part!