Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)

Re:Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003) by dolzenko on Saturday March 01, 2014 @04:50PM (#7326289)

"Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason." - what he is on about there?

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Re:Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003) by div on Saturday March 01, 2014 @04:55PM (#7326312)

Email is the French / German / Dutch word for enamel.

Of course the pronounciation is very different.

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Re:Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003) by kourt on Saturday March 01, 2014 @04:59PM (#7326336)

Thanks. The French linguistic equivalent is the shortening of "courrier électronique" to "courriel".

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Re:Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003) by bbanyc on Saturday March 01, 2014 @06:22PM (#7326653)

They missed a chance to abbreviate "poste électronique" to "postel", which would also commemorate the creator of SMTP.

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Re:Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003) by baby on Saturday March 01, 2014 @05:46PM (#7326495)

which is not used in France but rather in Quebec.

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Re:Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003) by danbruc on Saturday March 01, 2014 @05:00PM (#7326341)

I am German and I did not know this, was only aware of the alternative form Emaille.

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Re:Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003) by dolzenko on Saturday March 01, 2014 @07:27PM (#7326988)

Is that really it? Thought it might go deeper than that and I'm missing on some "cultural background" :)

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Re:Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003) by model-m on Saturday March 01, 2014 @05:21PM (#7326406)

For French, he's probably referring to the word "émail", which means "enamel". To my knowledge, the word "email" without an accent does not exist in French.

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Re:Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003) by baby on Saturday March 01, 2014 @05:48PM (#7326507)

email is the word used in french for electronic mail. I rarely see people writing e-mail, and more often see people writing mail or email.

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Re:Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003) by danbruc on Saturday March 01, 2014 @04:57PM (#7326329)

The correct German spelling is E-Mail.

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