[PLUG] Do you like my courriel?

[Paul Heinlein]

"The French Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of
'e-mail' in all government ministries, documents, publications or Web
sites, the latest step to stem an incursion of English words into the
French lexicon."

The approved term is now "courriel":

  http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/07/18/france.email.ap/index.html

Gotta love the French. :-)

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>