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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by Beldin on Monday April 01, 2019 @01:21PM (#19545690)
Interesting... when I asked a few years ago, I was told by a French guy that nobody uses courriel in real life and that I'd sound better if I used 'mail' (in french pronunciation).

He was from île de paris; your mileage may vary.

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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by GuB-42 on Monday April 01, 2019 @02:47PM (#19546704)
He is right. We all use "mail". And it always means email.

"Courriel", or its complete form "courrier éléctronique" is more common in formal, written conversation.

I think the translation came up too late. An early french proposal was to use the "mél" abbreviation which is terrible and never took off... It is still preferred by the Académie Française, another case of being completely off.

BTW, it is "Île de France", the region where Paris is ;) But the situation is the same for all of continental France. I don't know about the overseas and other French-speaking countries.

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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by cbnotfromthere on Monday April 01, 2019 @06:18PM (#19548913)
"He was from île de paris"

There is no "île de Paris" in France.

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