simple question...

[Blue]

Barnesy,

The French AUTHORITIES do hate foreign words, BUT the French people love them, therein lie the problem. The french use the words "mail" for email, week-end and airbag even though the French government has banned these words and wants them replaced by "Courier Electronique, Fin-de-semaine, and, Sac-gonflable de securite" :-) its called the Toubon law after the senator who got the bill passed (the French jokingly refer to him as AllGood as Tous Bons means all good in french).

Anyway the point is although the authorities want English out of their language, it has crept in, and in my opinion this is not a bad thing.

-Blue

[This message has been edited by Blue (edited 02-28-2001).]