France Takes on Twitter, Bans the Word 'Hashtag'

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The French Government is taking on Twitter, specifically the use of the word ‘hashtag’ and replacing it with the French term “mot-dièse”, which means ‘sharp word’. We’re quite sure that there will be several ‘sharp words’ exchanged over the substitute wording. Freedom Fries anyone? :D

The commission's attempt to scrub a popular English word from the French language is hardly unusual. France has long taken a very aggressive approach to policing the French language and protecting it from unwanted foreign words.
 
It's ok. I propose we ban France from the internet.

The women there don't shave, so it's not like they're losing a lot of modern-inity.
 
Dièse is actually the word for # in french.

not very clever
 
I'll be hosting a snail race later tonight if anyone wants to attend. Loser get's sprinkled with Salt, Winner get's to be eaten by some French dude that smells like cheese.
 
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English is full of French loan words and phrases and seems to be doing just fine. I am sure French can handle some English words. Silly idea.
 
In Europe, Hash is mostly known as a substance you smoke, it's like starting to use a word like "CocaineTag".
 
France is still living in the 18th century,the last time it had any real importance. I wonder if they've banned the word "collaborator" as well?
 
Thank goodness French Canadians aren't dumb like French French people are. Canada should really just go over there and be like, "GTFO you losers! Go inhabit the Moon and be absurd there because we have better maple syrup and geese than you."
 
Thank goodness French Canadians aren't dumb like French French people are. Canada should really just go over there and be like, "GTFO you losers! Go inhabit the Moon and be absurd there because we have better maple syrup and geese than you."

Also, they shave.

Mostly.
 
Remember when France tried to ban the word "email" and replace with "couriér"?

Nobody cared then, nobody cares now, nobody will care in the future. France is by far the most pretentious language in the world, championed by the most pretentious commission in the world. Just let it die already.
 
*French

Damn you, let us edit posts in uneditable blplalrgrgrgrgrgr I don't care anymore it's Saturday night and the rum's not gone brbrbb
 
I am replacing mine with "SHTAG", which is made out of two naughty words, and saves memory.
 
LOL, I am going to predict that we will see another French surrender soon. Twitter 1 Froggies 0.
 
I guess the bureaucrats under François Hollande had to come up with something to keep the bureaucracy occupied. Kind of sad really.
 
lolfrance

France is still fuming that French was kicked to the curb from the position of most used language for international affairs around the time Napoleon found out the word Waterloo was bad news. A funny anecdote I have with that too. Senior year of high school I had the French teacher for home room. She would constantly wax poetic on how French is the 'most internationally accepted language'. The kicker is that she wasn't French, but English. As in, from England.
 
France is still living in the 18th century,the last time it had any real importance. I wonder if they've banned the word "collaborator" as well?

LOL. Totally this.

I'll give them credit for trying really hard to have any importance since then.
 
Thank goodness French Canadians aren't dumb like French French people are. Canada should really just go over there and be like, "GTFO you losers! Go inhabit the Moon and be absurd there because we have better maple syrup and geese than you."

Well Quebec does have a Separatist government so that statement is not entirely true. Not to mention Bill 101 and Language Cops.
 
Surely governments have better things to concern their time with?

Never overestimate the intelligence of politicians anywhere. Look at the time and money wasted here over the video game nonsense.
Then again,remember we're talking about France,a country whose most famous historical figure was a pint sized megalomaniac who has an entire psychological disorder named after him.
 
Well Quebec does have a Separatist government so that statement is not entirely true. Not to mention Bill 101 and Language Cops.

They're only doing that as a favor to the rest of Canada. If Quebec is its own nation, it can conquer Newfoundland and France without incriminating the other Canadians which it will later rejoin after everyone sorta forgets and starts watching movies about some little kid in glasses that goes to a wizards' school.

That's HIGHLY debate able.

You're just not seeing the reason behind their awesome plans which I listed above. ^^
 
they think this will protect their language and not have it diluted with words outside of the French dictionary.

they bought the rights for "The Voice"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice_(U.S.)

and have their version running, when one of the judges says literally
"great voice" "good job" "awesome" etc, those words are and phrases are subtitled.... hilarious :)
 
Well, waddaya know. There really IS a Language Police out there.
 
Personally I wish they would stop using the term hashtag for the # symbol. Prior to Twitter the only place that referred to the # as a hash is the UK and Ireland. Everywhere else referred to the # as the Pound Symbol. And I have no clue why Twitter went with "hashtag" and not "pound" since it is a US company.

I grew up that the # on the phone was the Pound Key, or the Number Key.
 
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