French Government Bans 'Hashtag' And Renames It 'Mot-dièse'
Those French! First they want Twitter to bend the rules for them and now they refuse to use a perfectly good word just because it isn’t au français. Bah!
The French word for hashtag, mot-dièse, means “sharp word” according to Fast Company. And the French apparently believe this word is just as good – better even (because it’s French).
“The decision was made by a government office, the Commission Générale de Terminologie et de Néologie, which is tasked with inventing French-language equivalents to foreign-language terms found popping up in France.”
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