News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:How good is your French accent? by sevensor on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:26PM (#11456781)
A better example might be <<magnétoscope>>, which I learned means "VCR" when I studied French in the '90s.

Edit: accent

Re:How good is your French accent? by pygy_ on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:54PM (#11457410)
A natural counterpart to the magnétophone that plays audio tape (which itself probably derives from gramophone).

Forced frenchified words that come to mind would be couriel for email, and mot-dièse (literally "sharp word") for "hash tag", when both English terms already are in common use.

Re:How good is your French accent? by _ak on Friday April 08, 2016 @04:32PM (#11457678)
Télécopieur is one of my favourites, it's the fax machine. The fax, i.e. the piece of paper coming out, is the télécopie. Tele-copy, that's something I can get wrap my head around, it actually is a better derivation than from Latin facsimile.