It seems that cultural boundaries are being carved out on the internet.  The French government is putting its pied down to insist that the use of Anglicised internet terms, such as “hashtag”, don’t invade their language.  But it might be a case of the power of the people as to what ones retain dominance.

France says ‘non’ to hashtags”LE NEWS dans mon e-mail ce week-end? C’est cool, yes?” C’est definitely not cool, if you’re the French government department charged with keeping the language pure. This country with an unhappy history of invasion now has to defend its mother tongue on a new front: social media.

via Smh