Subject: Re: [OT] Re: gitk : french translation

From: Maximilien Noal <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:24:45 +0100

Matthieu Moy a écrit :
> Nicolas Pitre <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> It's like those stu**d people who decided that "email" was too hard to 
>> translate.  So they declared that "email" was "imél" in French.
> 
> This one is not _as_ stupid as it seems to be. It's not "imél", it's
> "mél.", and it's a shortcut for "messagerie électronique", like "tél."
> is a shortcut for "téléphone" (the kind of things to put on your visit
> card or on the header of a letter).
> 
> http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/dglf/mel.htm
> 
mél is ugly as hell to the ear.

Courriel sounds way better!