French are Becoming Retarded; Ban Use of Word Email

The French government has banned the use of the word 'email' in all its ministries, documents, publications and websites.
In the latest step to stem an incursion of English words into the French language, the Culture Ministry says the term should be replaced with 'courriel'.

The French don't seem to realize the enormous amount of French derived words that we have in the English language. everything from rendezvous to pot-pourie has roots in their language, yet they refuse to ever go forward. They're so obsessed with keeping their culture intact that they're not letting it grow. What would've happened if thousands of years ago some group of people said "Hey, let's not let Latin influence our language, its not in keeping with our culture."