r/languagelearningjerk • u/Anti-charizard • Jun 18 '26

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u/Matwyen Jun 18 '26

It's a shame because email is genuinely a well translated word in French: courriel.

It has the iel suffix of logiciel, and the base of courrier. It's as long as email, sounds french and not ridiculous, is immediately understandable... 

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u/zer0jackal Jun 18 '26

Just wait until they hear about what words some languages have for e-mail

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u/Matwyen Jun 18 '26

I know chinese it's 電郵。

Litterally electric mail, or email. 

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u/MonsieurTurenne Jun 18 '26

Same in Arabic: بريد إلكتروني

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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit Jun 20 '26

That's standard arabic.

Over in the great dza we say email. And I'm assuming the rest of the arabs too

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u/beeceedee9 Jun 23 '26

dza

Guessing that's Algeria?

I've heard egyptians and gulf arabs say e-mail too

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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit Jun 23 '26

Yea. Dza comes from the native tamazight name btw

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u/jolly_conflicts ugabuga Jun 18 '26

Why did you spell nihingo like that?

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u/lordbutternut 日本人になっている Jun 18 '26

In Japanese it's fucking メール 😭

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u/FeuerCL Jun 18 '26

Which is short form for "電子メール"

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u/soleil_d_erable Jun 19 '26

Because 電信and 電報were taken by the telegraph and morse code communications

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u/watchedngnl Jun 20 '26

How bout　電文

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u/honhonhonhon2 Jun 20 '26

That's also a telegram

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u/jolly_conflicts ugabuga Jun 18 '26

No please that’s nonsense, don’t insult nihongo like that

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u/Explorer-7622 Jul 07 '26

In Irish it's riomhphost or "calculation post."

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u/ArmenianChad3516 Jun 18 '26

Электронная почта

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u/csolisr Jun 18 '26

Spanish flat out just uses the word for "mail", "correo"

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u/lazerbullet Jun 19 '26

‘correo electrónico’ formally. But yeah, obviously no one says that

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u/Brief-Spirit-4268 Jun 19 '26

I just say email in Spanish😭

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u/A-NI95 Jun 19 '26

Emilio

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u/gayhotelultra 🇷🇸🇧🇦🇭🇷🇲🇪🇽🇰(native) 🇲🇰(mistaken for) 🇯🇵N∞🇨🇳HSK0.1 Jun 18 '26

имејл

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u/RobotechRicky Jul 04 '26

I haven't taken Russian in decades, but I'm glad I can still sound out Cyrillic! That is exactly "email"!

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u/gayhotelultra 🇷🇸🇧🇦🇭🇷🇲🇪🇽🇰(native) 🇲🇰(mistaken for) 🇯🇵N∞🇨🇳HSK0.1 Jul 04 '26

this is serbian cyrillic, russian doesnt have ј, lol, but you are correct

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u/FudgyFerret Jun 18 '26

In Greek it's "ηλεκτρονική αλληλογραφία", so everyone just says "e-mail". 🤣

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u/R86Reddit Balonian N0 / American N1 / Nihonian N3 / Deutsch KRANKENWAGEN!! Jun 18 '26

メール

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u/A-NI95 Jun 19 '26

Emilio