Dude, it's hilarious. The French Academy of Language wasn't happy that people were using the word e-mail, so they came up with a new French word for Internet letters. This is a far cry from German and Japanese, which try to incorporate as many English nouns as possible.

Still, is there any truth to the claim that certain cable brands improve the picture, and if so, how significant is the improvement?

SCART (from Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils Radiorécepteurs et Téléviseurs)

Eddie, you are gonna love this. The SCART connector was developed by the French. Its original purpose was to prevent foreign television imports.

Man, you sure know a lot of weird terminology.

Nah, it's simply a matter of knowing how to turn certain words into nouns even when they begin life as verbs, adjectives, or adverbs. (Yes, I was an English major.)

I was too.

Really? That's great! Did you have a specific focus? Mine was Shakespeare Studies.