Comments on: The official French for “hashtag”

By: France Bans Hashtags – Fast Company

France Bans Hashtags – Fast Company — Thu, 23 May 2013 06:39:20 +0000

[...] essential source …French government replaces Twitter hashtag with “mot-dièse”SlashGearThe official French for “hashtag”Hot Airall 26 news [...]

By: SoRight

SoRight — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 20:47:54 +0000

Why do I suspect that the French are more aggressive in keeping English words (esp. US-derived English ones) out of usage than they are in keeping Arabic terms out of usage?

By: virgo

virgo — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:45:44 +0000

Declaring a national language is one thing. Literally having your vocabulary handed down to you is another. I really am starting to realize how different we used to be.

MelonCollie on January 26, 2013 at 7:29 AM

Good point. Perhaps the linguistic intolerance of the French is related to their socialist intolerance.

Regulating choice-of-words is the well-spring of modern tyranny.

By: Bmore

Bmore — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:33:51 +0000

Well unless Monty Python comes back on the scene.

By: Bmore

Bmore — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:33:16 +0000

French is a dead language. Face it.

By: HopeHeFails

HopeHeFails — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:28:44 +0000

Of course. Mot-diese translated into Obama English means, “Mo-money.”

By: Greek Fire

Greek Fire — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:26:41 +0000

BTW, shows you what the French think of the Quebecois, where the far more euphonious “mot-clic” is already deep-seated.

By: MelonCollie

MelonCollie — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:25:11 +0000

Rather Orwellian, don’t you think, having an government office of official language?

Count to 10 on January 26, 2013 at 8:10 AM

Exactly, why lorien doesn’t get this is mind-boggling.

I don’t know about you but that sounds STRAIGHT out of 1984!

By: Greek Fire

Greek Fire — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:18:04 +0000

Let's get them back by eliminating French words from English: ~~MAYDAY~~ Help! ~~FAUX PAS~~ mistake ~~VOILA~~ check it out ~~SOMMELIER~~ wine squire ~~AIDE-DE-CAMPE~~ camp helper ~~GERARD DEPARDIEU~~ Jerry Black

By: Count to 10

Count to 10 — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:10:06 +0000

Rather Orwellian, don’t you think, having an government office of official language?

By: Odysseus

Odysseus — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:43:22 +0000

Those French have a different word for everything.

By: MelonCollie

MelonCollie — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:29:03 +0000

Do you think school should only teach classes in english?

(except for foreign language classes, naturally)

lorien1973 on January 26, 2013 at 12:06 AM

Different issue.

Declaring a national language is one thing. Literally having your vocabulary handed down to you is another. I really am starting to realize how different we used to be.

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:06:42 +0000

MelonCollie on January 25, 2013 at 8:34 PM

Do you think school should only teach classes in english?

(except for foreign language classes, naturally)

By: BobMbx

BobMbx — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:47:31 +0000

whats “bleen” in French?

By: MelonCollie

MelonCollie — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:34:42 +0000

New words are approved by the Academie Francaise and written into the lawbooks.

Stunning. Just…stunning.

Imagine the vocabulary you use being decided upon by a bunch of self-appointed guardians of language. Imagine being a teacher and being told what new words you will teach the young.

If this does not demonstrate the massive differences in European and American cultures, I don’t know what does.

By: AndStatistics

AndStatistics — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:45 +0000

What, this again? I don't see why they get so bothered over English tech-words leaking into french. Look at how many French words have leaked into English.

By: aryeung

aryeung — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:39:26 +0000

Too bad we don’t have a government agency to tell us what words to use. Oh wait.

By: UltimateBob

UltimateBob — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:35:32 +0000

Le hash-tague?

By: theperfecteconomist

theperfecteconomist — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:35:22 +0000

Makes sense:

Mot = word, diese = sharp, like the symbol in music (♯)