Joe Nicholson wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 -=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Joe Nicholson <=-

JN> BTW, France has now banned the use of the term "e-mail" throughout 
JN> the government.

RJT> What rationale did they give for this?  Too "American" or
something?

JN> They don't want their language corrupted/bastardized by the 
JN> inclusion of foreign words.  It's nothing new; they've been 
JN> banning words for decades.

I've heard of that sort of thing before.

JN> It's too bad England and the U.S. didn't do the same with french 
JN> words hundreds of years ago.

There aren't that many,  are there?

JN> School kids would not have to remember how to spell such
JN> words as reservoir or boulevard, maneuver or oubliette.

Yup.

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