Re:Google's link to French privacy fine crashes watchdog's site
by pcrh on Monday February 10, 2014 @03:25PM
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While it is true that L'académie française sometimes comes out with peculiar recommendations, this particular blog does a poor job of pointing them out. In particular, the author does not appear to have a very good grasp of colloquial French, or the history of some terms used in the software and computer fields.
For example:
1) courriel is not a contraction of courrier and email, but of courrier électronique (i.e. electronic mail).
2) The verb planter in the context of a computer crash does not derive directly from "to plant", but from a colloquial term meaning to make a mistake (itself possibly derived from some sense of becoming like a vegetable/plant).
For example:
1) courriel is not a contraction of courrier and email, but of courrier électronique (i.e. electronic mail).
2) The verb planter in the context of a computer crash does not derive directly from "to plant", but from a colloquial term meaning to make a mistake (itself possibly derived from some sense of becoming like a vegetable/plant).