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"Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason." -
by dolzenko 13y ago
"Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason." - what he is on about there?
- div 13y agoEmail is the French / German / Dutch word for enamel. Of course the pronounciation is very different.
- kourt 13y agoThanks. The French linguistic equivalent is the shortening of "courrier électronique" to "courriel".
- danbruc 13y agoI am German and I did not know this, was only aware of the alternative form Emaille.
- dolzenko 13y agoIs that really it? Thought it might go deeper than that and I'm missing on some "cultural background" :)
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- danbruc 13y agoThe correct German spelling is E-Mail.
- model-m 13y agoFor French, he's probably referring to the word "émail", which means "enamel". To my knowledge, the word "email" without an accent does not exist in French.
- baby 13y agoemail is the word used in french for electronic mail. I rarely see people writing e-mail, and more often see people writing mail or email.