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SwordInStone@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago

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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Jour Fixe

    I don’t think they use that term in English. And even more surprising, they don’t even use it in French. It’s a French loanword that somehow only exists in German.

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      Interesting, thanks for sharing. I love these linguistic quirks.

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      It absolutely gets used in English speaking companies. I’ve got one in my work calendar as a reoccurring event.

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        I’ve lived in the US for about half a century and have never heard this.

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        Just to be sure, who created the invite? A German native speaker by chance?

        The first page of results when I deliberately google in English “what is a Jour Fixe” are the following:

        • Blog entry in English written by someone from a Liechtensteiner Organisation
        • Blog entry in English written about the German usage of the Term
        • English Wiktionary entry
        • German Wikipedia article
        • Blog entry in English written by someone from a German Organisation
        • Translation website treating it as a German term
        • Blog entry in English written by someone from Austria
        • Translation website treating it as a German term
        • Blog entry in German
        • Blog entry in German

        Some of that may be personalized to me as a Swiss user of course. But it seems a bit much to be a coincidence. Maybe it is a loan word making its way from German into English now.

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          I speak a little bit of German, but no, the guy who created the series is a native English speaker with Afrikaans as his second language.

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