Re: a verb aspect--what's it called?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 12, 2000, 13:07 |
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En réponse à Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>:
>
> <dancing around in joy> (Hey, when you're contemplating Really Yucky
> proofs on determinants, even small triumphs are great.) I wasn't sure
> how "e-mail" rendered in French, and I'm rusty. <making note to
> practice
> more>
>
E-mail is simply rendered as "e-mail" (pronounced /i'mEl/). There's been an
attempt from the French Academy to introduce the made up word "mél" /mel/, but
the word "e-mail" was already so much in use that it failed. Actually it's not a
complete failure, as you often find the word "mél" in forms and resumes, as it
makes a nice parallel with "tél.", the abbreviation for "téléphone": phone. So
we can consider "mél" as a kind of strange "abbreviation" of "e-mail" :)
Christophe.