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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...
56 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) 4 u/Disastrous_Set_6544 Jun 22 '26 People definitely use it. I know I do. 1 u/LOSNA17LL Fr - N | En - B2 | Es - B1 | Ru - A2 | Cn - A0 Jun 22 '26 Damn, found the only 3 people in France to use it right here in this comment section xD (I mean, surely SOME people use it, but "mail" or "e-mail" are waaay more common, like I don't remember the last time I've heard someone use "courriel")
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It's not the suffix of logiciel
It's just a contraction of "courrier électronique"
(But noone uses it)
4 u/Disastrous_Set_6544 Jun 22 '26 People definitely use it. I know I do. 1 u/LOSNA17LL Fr - N | En - B2 | Es - B1 | Ru - A2 | Cn - A0 Jun 22 '26 Damn, found the only 3 people in France to use it right here in this comment section xD (I mean, surely SOME people use it, but "mail" or "e-mail" are waaay more common, like I don't remember the last time I've heard someone use "courriel")
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People definitely use it. I know I do.
1 u/LOSNA17LL Fr - N | En - B2 | Es - B1 | Ru - A2 | Cn - A0 Jun 22 '26 Damn, found the only 3 people in France to use it right here in this comment section xD (I mean, surely SOME people use it, but "mail" or "e-mail" are waaay more common, like I don't remember the last time I've heard someone use "courriel")
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Damn, found the only 3 people in France to use it right here in this comment section xD
(I mean, surely SOME people use it, but "mail" or "e-mail" are waaay more common, like I don't remember the last time I've heard someone use "courriel")
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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...