Shucks, use any form of ‘email’ as long as you are consistent with it. I know a web site that uses a few variations of it on the site but they should not.
‘Internet’ is an acrynomn, isnt it? Ah, I long for the old debate on if its got a big ‘I’ or a small one.
Babelfish? You can get better translations throwing darts at a dictionary.
Courriel is very common in written documents, though I often hear French speakers using “email”. Altavista turns up over 60,000 hits, although there are about a million for email and e-mail in French-language web pages.
Dee da dee da dee dee do do / Dee ba ditty doh / Deedle dooby doo ba dee um bee ooby / Be doodle oodle doodle dee doh http://members.xoom.com/labradorian/
Bien sûr, nous avons aussi l’équivalent littéral “courrier électronique”, mais “courriel” a de plus en plus droit de cité, du moins au Canada. En France, où tout ce qui sonne anglais fait chic, on dit régulièrement “e-mail” qui, dans la bouche du Francais moyen, devient “i-mêle”, mais c’est une autre histoire…
Something for you to chew on, fair Cessandra
C’mon, guys, I listen to enough of that French-Canadian jive down here in Southern Florida-----don’t make me suffer any more than I have to.
Does it really matter how you say “e-mail” in French when over 90% of global internet traffic is in English?
Well, see, ya gotta put that little hoary-zontal line in there, ‘cause electrons is negativvious – an’ that’s not a hyphen; it’s a minus sign. An’ ‘@mail’, the way I figger, should be ‘snail mail’, ‘counta the spiral. Don’ care wutcher OED should say, ner yer word-pro-sister.
But what does the Académie have to say about the appropriate French word for electronic mail?
Ray (‘You got a @/" up your mail.’)
Hm, I can understand the French stuff pretty well (I didn’t quite get Arnold’s post, but I completely understand Omni-not’s) and I’ve never taken a single French class in my life. Please don’t ask me to write in French though!
Re the OP: I usually write email, but e-mail looks okay to me too. Anything else looks kinda silly to me, especially e@mail and eMail.
~Harborina
“Don’t Do It.”