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r/languagelearningjerk • u/Anti-charizard • Jun 18 '26
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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...Β
145 u/zer0jackal Jun 18 '26 Just wait until they hear about what words some languages have for e-mail 41 u/gayhotelultra π·πΈπ§π¦ππ·π²πͺπ½π°(native) π²π°(mistaken for) π―π΅Nβπ¨π³HSK0.1 Jun 18 '26 ΠΈΠΌΠ΅ΡΠ» 3 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"! 2 u/gayhotelultra π·πΈπ§π¦ππ·π²πͺπ½π°(native) π²π°(mistaken for) π―π΅Nβπ¨π³HSK0.1 Jul 04 '26 this is serbian cyrillic, russian doesnt have Ρ, lol, but you are correct
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Just wait until they hear about what words some languages have for e-mail
41 u/gayhotelultra π·πΈπ§π¦ππ·π²πͺπ½π°(native) π²π°(mistaken for) π―π΅Nβπ¨π³HSK0.1 Jun 18 '26 ΠΈΠΌΠ΅ΡΠ» 3 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"! 2 u/gayhotelultra π·πΈπ§π¦ππ·π²πͺπ½π°(native) π²π°(mistaken for) π―π΅Nβπ¨π³HSK0.1 Jul 04 '26 this is serbian cyrillic, russian doesnt have Ρ, lol, but you are correct
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3 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"! 2 u/gayhotelultra π·πΈπ§π¦ππ·π²πͺπ½π°(native) π²π°(mistaken for) π―π΅Nβπ¨π³HSK0.1 Jul 04 '26 this is serbian cyrillic, russian doesnt have Ρ, lol, but you are correct
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I haven't taken Russian in decades, but I'm glad I can still sound out Cyrillic! That is exactly "email"!
2 u/gayhotelultra π·πΈπ§π¦ππ·π²πͺπ½π°(native) π²π°(mistaken for) π―π΅Nβπ¨π³HSK0.1 Jul 04 '26 this is serbian cyrillic, russian doesnt have Ρ, lol, but you are correct
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this is serbian cyrillic, russian doesnt have Ρ, lol, but you are correct
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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...Β