[MR] A good term for E-mail

Lord Lyon Filshenri lordlyon at lairhaven.com
Mon Dec 19 19:22:49 PST 2005


In the SCA, we have many pseudo-words for modern things, farspeaker and
chariot and the like, and I have heard people refer to e-mail by talking
about a courier named Emil, but here is one I really like. In A Word a Day,
there was discussion of French language purists that said "Every other
country uses the term email, but the French prefer to stay with 'courriel'.

I like that as a term that won't jar by sounding modern, (at least to
European personae) and yet means e-mail.

Lord Lyon Filshenri
Barony of Caer Mear, Kingdom of Atlantia
Escutièr to His Excellency the Baron of Marinus, Syr Otto von Schwartzkatz,
O.P.
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