[OT] Re: gitk : french translation

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

It's like those stu**d people who decided that "email" was too hard to 
translate.  So they declared that "email" was "imél" in French.

This one is not _as_ stupid as it seems to be. It's not "imél", it's
"mél.", and it's a shortcut for "messagerie électronique", like "tél."
is a shortcut for "téléphone" (the kind of things to put on your visit
card or on the header of a letter).

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/dglf/mel.htm

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

Matthieu Moy a écrit :

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

It's like those stu**d people who decided that "email" was too hard to 
translate.  So they declared that "email" was "imél" in French.

This one is not _as_ stupid as it seems to be. It's not "imél", it's
"mél.", and it's a shortcut for "messagerie électronique", like "tél."
is a shortcut for "téléphone" (the kind of things to put on your visit
card or on the header of a letter).

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/dglf/mel.htm

mél is ugly as hell to the ear.

Courriel sounds way better!