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

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Originally posted by Sikander


Actually chat was allowed because a computer illiterate at the Academie thought it was a French, when it is actually a false cognate.

It means cat in French

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Originally posted by Rogan Josh
Seems fair enough to me. I don't see 'Yo nigga'' being used in many official US documents.

I wouldn't mind. Imagine an official letter from Bush to Powell starting with "Yo nigga! Wazzup?"

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Originally posted by DinoDoc
That didn't stop them from banning jeans or weekend.

Just in case you would mind to check :

http://atilf.inalf.fr/dendien/script...xe?p=combi.htm;java=no;

Just type weekend and you will get the part of the dictionnary describing the meanings and uses of this world in French, and do the same for jean.

... and you will see that your statement is false.