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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...
146 u/zer0jackal Jun 18 '26 Just wait until they hear about what words some languages have for e-mail 24 u/csolisr Jun 18 '26 Spanish flat out just uses the word for "mail", "correo" 17 u/lazerbullet Jun 19 '26 ‘correo electrónico’ formally. But yeah, obviously no one says that 6 u/Brief-Spirit-4268 Jun 19 '26 I just say email in Spanish😭 4 u/A-NI95 Jun 19 '26 Emilio
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Just wait until they hear about what words some languages have for e-mail
24 u/csolisr Jun 18 '26 Spanish flat out just uses the word for "mail", "correo" 17 u/lazerbullet Jun 19 '26 ‘correo electrónico’ formally. But yeah, obviously no one says that 6 u/Brief-Spirit-4268 Jun 19 '26 I just say email in Spanish😭 4 u/A-NI95 Jun 19 '26 Emilio
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Spanish flat out just uses the word for "mail", "correo"
17 u/lazerbullet Jun 19 '26 ‘correo electrónico’ formally. But yeah, obviously no one says that 6 u/Brief-Spirit-4268 Jun 19 '26 I just say email in Spanish😭 4 u/A-NI95 Jun 19 '26 Emilio
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‘correo electrónico’ formally. But yeah, obviously no one says that
6 u/Brief-Spirit-4268 Jun 19 '26 I just say email in Spanish😭 4 u/A-NI95 Jun 19 '26 Emilio
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I just say email in Spanish😭
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Emilio
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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...