"Le commerçant me transfère son courriel."
Translation:The shopkeeper forwards his email to me.
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There is nothing that says this is an online merchant--only that the person is forwarding his email to you. In general, un commerçant = a storekeeper/shopkeeper, un marchand = a merchant, although Oxford French Dictionary includes "shopkeeper". There is enough overlap between the terms that we won't argue it here. A "site marchand" may be either an "online store/shop" or a "retail outlet" (brick-and-mortar).
Yes, it does. Especially online. You talk about an online merchant, not an online shopkeeper.
It is a supremely DL move not to allow "transfèrer" to be translated as "transfer".
(It absolutely does mean that.)
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It should be accepted, of course, with the accent over the first e of électronique. I say that and nobody has corrected me yet.
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Could it be that the shopkeeper forwards me HER email if we were talking about a woman in the prior context?
In regard of forwarding email, I would now express this as, "The merchant forwards me his email." Yes, to be forwarded has become a thing. :-)
This was happening with mail, and so described, long before e-mail was invented.
In the type what you hear form of exercise, how does "courriels" sound different to "courriel?"
It doesn't, but "ses courriels" sounds different from "son courriel".
I think it's an option, though the word is a bit old-fashioned outside of specific technical contexts that would need to be indicated with a modifier in either language unless the kind of "trader" were already clear.
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I've been told that "Courriel" is very old fashioned and is no longer in use, the term used here in the Haute Savoie region of France is simply E-Mail.
It's not old-fashioned (how old-fashioned can a word for "e-mail" be?), but its use isn't as widespread in France as the Académie would like.
It was created in Quebec where it has become the common term. It's been endorsed by the Académie and is the "official" term in France, and you'll see it used by institutions that share the goal of avoiding "franglais". However, in France it isn't widely used colloquially. This is because it post-dates the uptake of "e-mail", not because it's old-fashioned.
Some French publications will mainly use "e-mail" but throw in "courriel" from time to time to avoid repetition.