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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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