From: Steve Grammont (islander@midmaine.com)
Date: Sat Jul 19 2003 - 08:12:02 PDT
This has been going on for YEARS. It is actually illegal for many things
(all?) to be sold to French consumers unless the packaging is "localized"
into French.
Personally, if this is what it takes to prevent this world from becoming
one big massive American shopping mall, I'm for it. When I go to a
foreign country I actually like it look, sound, and feel different than a
New Jersey suburb :-)
Steve
>I'm not making this up.
>
>The French quasi-government organization that has historically monitored and
>controlled the French language (La Societe Francaise) has declared that the
>term "email" will no longer be allowed in polite conversation or in the
>print media. Instead the term will now be "courier electronique" or
>something similar.
>
>The rationale for this decision is that too many "American" terms are
>leeching into the French language. Terms like "hamburger", "D-Day", "We
>came over and kicked Hitler's ass so that you could be French again,
>Froggy", etc, are apparently eroding the pure Language of Voltaire.
>
>Arthur P. Bloom, Kraut/Mick
>
>"The French,
>they are a silly race...
>They fight with their feet,
>and f--- with their face."
>
>Ogden Nash
>
>
>
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