bitful

UK-based weblog on technology, queerness, language and fitness

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You can always trust the French to fiercely overprotect their noble language from external attacks. The latest expression that got the axe is email, deemed to be too foreign and from now on bound to be replaced in all government documents, publications and websites by a more gallic courriel (from courrier = mail, and électronique = well, you get it).

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