{"id":639953,"date":"2013-01-25T08:54:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T13:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=213162"},"modified":"2013-01-25T08:54:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T13:54:59","slug":"french-government-ditches-hashtag-for-mot-diese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/639953","title":{"rendered":"French Government Ditches \u2018Hashtag\u2019 for \u2018mot-di\u00e8se\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an attempt to “encourage the presence of the French language on social media networks” against the influx of English language domination of the web, as well as to just be plain difficult, the French government is suggesting that people quit using the term “hashtag.”<\/p>\n

Instead, they suggest that people use the French term “mot-di\u00e8se,\u201d which literally translates to “sharp word” – as in the musical symbol for a sharp. The government isn’t banning its citizens from using the word “hashtag,” but they will be officially replacing it with “mot-di\u00e8se\u201d on all official documents and accounts. <\/p>\n

The Legifrance government page has a definition page for mot-di\u00e8se<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Suite signifiante de caract\u00e8res sans espace commen\u00e7ant par le signe # (di\u00e8se), qui signale un sujet d’int\u00e9r\u00eat et est ins\u00e9r\u00e9e dans un message par son r\u00e9dacteur afin d’en faciliter le rep\u00e9rage.<\/p>\n

With the aid of Google translate, that means “Suite signifying characters without spaces starting with # (hash), which indicates a topic of interest and is inserted into a message to his editor in easy identification.” So a hashtag, but not really.<\/p>\n

Some French Twitter users have been quick to point out the the musical sharp symbol is not perfectly swappable with the hashtag, as the sharp symbol has a slightly different lean to it. <\/p>\n

This news comes in the same week that a French court ruled that Twitter must give up the identities of some anti-Semitic users<\/a> following a scandal involving an offensive hashtag. <\/p>\n

[The Local<\/a> via Huffington Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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In an attempt to “encourage the presence of the French language on social media networks” against the influx of English language domination of the web, as well as to just be plain difficult, the French government is suggesting that people quit using the term “hashtag.” Instead, they suggest that people use the French term “mot-di\u00e8se,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}