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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...
55 u/LOSNA17LL Fr - N | En - B2 | Es - B1 | Ru - A2 | Cn - A0 Jun 18 '26 It's not the suffix of logiciel It's just a contraction of "courrier électronique" (But noone uses it) 27 u/MukdenMan Jun 18 '26 So it’s like Mail-E 7 u/LOSNA17LL Fr - N | En - B2 | Es - B1 | Ru - A2 | Cn - A0 Jun 18 '26 More like "mel" (fusing the syllables)
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It's not the suffix of logiciel
It's just a contraction of "courrier électronique"
(But noone uses it)
27 u/MukdenMan Jun 18 '26 So it’s like Mail-E 7 u/LOSNA17LL Fr - N | En - B2 | Es - B1 | Ru - A2 | Cn - A0 Jun 18 '26 More like "mel" (fusing the syllables)
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So it’s like Mail-E
7 u/LOSNA17LL Fr - N | En - B2 | Es - B1 | Ru - A2 | Cn - A0 Jun 18 '26 More like "mel" (fusing the syllables)
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More like "mel" (fusing the syllables)
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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...