[semi-extrinsic]

In Norway, people employed by the local municipalities have email adresses that are literally of the style

  $firstname[.$middlename].$lastname@employee.$municipalityName.municipality.no  

where "employee" and "municipality" are literal strings (in Norwegian) and the others are variables. It's incredible, I've seen people with 50 character long email addresses.

[bewuethr]

If you want to reschedule your Canadian citizenship ceremony, this is the address to email: [e-mail]

[mikepurvis]

Looks like part of that might be attempting to craft a bilingual email address? This kind of thing is tough to get right— in many cases the easiest thing is to just make up a word that's understandable in both languages but isn't obviously preferential to either, like how the transit agency in Ottawa is called "OC Transpo".

On the other hand, for email addresses in particular, it should be easy to just have one in each language, which also makes sense in terms of the person replying knowing upfront which language you'd like to use based on which address your query came in on.

[rapunkill]

They could/should just use an alias where both email address point to the same inbox and would solve that issue in 2 minutes.

[scrollaway]

Exactly. Belgium is trilingual and just makes aliases, even to domain names.

[mijamo]

Why is that incredible? It is pretty common for many institutions to have that kind of email. Universities for instance often have similar emails so that just by looking at the email you know if the person is a teacher / student / temp worker and which chair they belong to, sometimes which campus in addition.

Many big companies have similar things to identify the BU of the email holder or indicate a contractor status (helpful for security policies).

[semi-extrinsic]

I don't know, I guess in the industries I work it's much more common to have emails that are somewhat unpredictable, like [e-mail]

[wbl]

Some unis. I had the three letter username (helps my name starts with W) at Berkeley. You could pick anything you wanted.

[blackearl]

it's not common to have such a long email