How is courriel an oddity though? It's just the same thing as email, a shortening of "electronic mail". Also, many of the "needlessly long" compound words in D

How is courriel an oddity though? It's just the same thing as email, a shortening of "electronic mail". Also, many of the "needlessly long" compound words in Dutch and German are just the same as in English and French, except those languages use equally long Greek or Latin compound words instead.