Goodbye E-MAIL!

Fri Jul 18, 2003 12:28 pm

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

Fri Jul 18, 2003 12:33 pm

Is this they way the french are fighting america and britain? cuz they didnt want war with iraq?

at least they keep their fighting peaceful, lol

Fri Jul 18, 2003 1:18 pm

I say we start a movement to change the name of:

quiche ---> egg and cheese pie
I'll have the egg and cheese pie with ham please.
crepe ---> thin-ass pancake filled with crap
I'll have the thin-ass pancake with fruit and whipped-cream please.
RSVP ---> RYSQP (reserve your spot quickly please)
Did you RYSQP to the wedding?
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Fri Jul 18, 2003 1:49 pm

What do you expect from Cheese Snarfing Surrender Monkeys?

Fri Jul 18, 2003 4:25 pm

French people have been like this for a while. In Quebec Canada, it's ILLEGAL to have english on a sign that is in BIGGER writing than the french words.

I guess they feel they have to do stuff like that so they can preserve their culture, because to tell the truth, english is becoming the world's standard for communication, since english is the talk of business.

Fri Jul 18, 2003 6:28 pm

Let's not forget the "Freedom fries" bullshit... I think it was some US senator who started this ridiculous behaving.

Fri Jul 18, 2003 9:20 pm

French rifles for sale: Never fired, dropped once.

Fri Jul 18, 2003 10:30 pm

fuck the French.

Fri Jul 18, 2003 10:35 pm

Originally posted by FLOPPY
Let's not forget the "Freedom fries" bullshit... I think it was some US senator who started this ridiculous behaving.

Freedom fries! :lol:

How gay...

He probably is from Texas! :roll:

Fri Jul 18, 2003 11:39 pm

Er... guys... trying to preserve one's language by preventing the use of foreign words is NORMAL. It's not a political thing. It's not particular to France. It's nothing against the US.

Here in Quebec we've used "courriel" for years. And yes, we have language laws, I'm their fiercest advocate. I'm not ready for assimilation yet.

Amusing how quickly some jump on the redneck bandwagon.

Fri Jul 18, 2003 11:47 pm

French isn't at risk any more than German, Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian, blah blah etc are. I wonder if these cultures go to the same extremes the French do.

I'm not dissing the french, infact I can understand where they're coming from, I really do, but sometimes I hear obsurd stories coming out of Quebec, like people being fined large sums of money because words in english are bigger than french words on their own BUSINESS cards. I'm recalling that from memory, so I could be wrong.

Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:50 am

And just what is the "redneck bandwagon"?

Sat Jul 19, 2003 1:13 am

Originally posted by Doug the Unforgiven
And just what [B]is the "redneck bandwagon"? [/B]

Isn't that a jugband from Arkansas?

Sat Jul 19, 2003 1:17 am

The Freedom Fries thing and what the French are doing are two completely different things. France claims it is a democracy, yet they LEGALLY BANNED the use of the term e-mail. They didn't just declare corriel or whatever the official term, they actually BANNED the use of e-mail. Banning language not of an offensive nature? We didn't write Freedom Fries into law, just it was a jab at France. France is literally taking away freedom of speech in that country, if they even have it. That is strong culturally.

Sat Jul 19, 2003 1:22 am

Lol! I I am going to subscribe to this thread, so I can check my COURRIEL if anyone else has posted a reply.

Always have thought those Frenchies were wierd..