User:Fláithiúil/List of French neologisms coined to replace anglicisms

Office québécois de la langue française, Académie française.

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English in computing
In French, there are some generally accepted English loan-words, but there is also a distinct effort to avoid them. In France, the Académie française is responsible for the standardisation of the language and often coins new technological terms. Some of them are accepted in practice, in other cases the English loanwords remain predominant. In Quebec, the Office québécois de la langue française has a similar function.


 * email/mail (in Europe); courriel (mainly in French-speaking Canada, but increasingly used in French-speaking Europe); mél. (only used as an abbreviation, similar to "tél." ); more formally courrier électronique
 * pourriel – spam
 * hameçonnage, phishing – phishing
 * télécharger – to download
 * site web – website
 * lien, hyperlien – website hyper-link
 * base de données – database
 * caméra web, webcaméra, short webcam – webcam
 * amorcer, démarrer, booter – to boot
 * redémarrer, rebooter – to reboot
 * arrêter, éteindre – to shut down
 * amorçable, bootable – bootable
 * surfréquençage, surcadençage, overclocking – overclocking
 * refroidissement à l'eau – watercooling
 * tuning PC – case modding

Quebec French
Starting in the latter half of the 20th century, an enormous store of French neologisms (coinages) and re-introduced words via terminological work by professionals, translators, and the OLF; some of this terminology is "exported" to the rest of la Francophonie.


 * clavardage, meaning "chat", a contraction of clavier (keyboard) and bavardage (chat). Verb: clavarder
 * courriel, meaning "e-mail", a contraction of courrier électronique (electronic mail)
 * pourriel, meaning "spam e-mail", is a contraction of poubelle (garbage) and courriel (email), whose popularity may also be influenced by the word pourri (rotten).
 * baladodiffusion (may be abbreviated to balado), meaning "podcasting", a contraction of baladeur (walkman) and radiodiffusion.