▲ 596 ▼ Campbell’s Soup VP mocks ‘poor people’ who buy its food in secret recording (www.newsweek.com) submitted 8 months ago by andros_rex@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world 95 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago (1 child) French moves just as quickly. The Académie Française exists to make sure the French you learn in school doesn't keep up. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Aeao@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 child) I only heard about it because of an article about them trying to find a French word for “e-mail” Did that become of thing? Did it catch on? I’m curious because in English once something has a “name” it never changes. Hell Donald trump tried to rename the Gulf of Mexico. I’m in Texas, no one is changing the name. It’s the Gulf of Mexico. Once something is established it doesn’t change. Did they change email into something more French? Does that work like that? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago Nope. It very much did not catch on. We call a message received by email "un mail" and then to avoid overloading we have" le courier". Best, mark permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 child) I only heard about it because of an article about them trying to find a French word for “e-mail” Did that become of thing? Did it catch on? I’m curious because in English once something has a “name” it never changes. Hell Donald trump tried to rename the Gulf of Mexico. I’m in Texas, no one is changing the name. It’s the Gulf of Mexico. Once something is established it doesn’t change. Did they change email into something more French? Does that work like that? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago Nope. It very much did not catch on. We call a message received by email "un mail" and then to avoid overloading we have" le courier". Best, mark permalink fedilink source parent
[–] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago Nope. It very much did not catch on. We call a message received by email "un mail" and then to avoid overloading we have" le courier". Best, mark permalink fedilink source parent