The French Commission Générale de Terminologie et de Néologisme has spoken: from now on, France’s government will not use the word “hashtag.”
Instead, official government documents will substitute in the term “mot-dièse” (“sharp word”), so called because the hash mark is similar to (but not exactly the same as) the musical symbol denoting sharpness.
Come on, guys, we kept “RSVP” and “faux pas” the same, can’t you cut us a little slack?
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