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In your target area, i.e. business, resume (don't forget the acute accent on the last e) is the defacto standard in the US, most people I encountered don't know
by Jun8 16y ago
In your target area, i.e. business, resume (don't forget the acute accent on the last e) is the defacto standard in the US, most people I encountered don't know the term CV.
Think of the situation as similar to "elevator" and "lift". I think most educated people, since they travel around, have contact with foreign people, etc., would know what a "lift" is but when you're going to a build a business, you want to avoid the awkwardness, unless, of course, you deliberately want to elicit the European or foreign feel (this is why some radio commercials for tea use people with British accents).
- olalonde 16y agoKind of funny that Americans use a French word and French people use a Latin word :)
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- simias 16y agoCurriculum vitæ is latin. Most french words have latin roots, but that doesn't make them latin words. A literal french translation of CV would be something like "le cours de la vie".
- olalonde 16y agoFrench being my mother tongue and having had to go through 3 painful years of Latin in high school, I can definitely tell you we don't use much Latin words ;)
- mahmud 16y agoThat was a cheesy joke that fell flat. So I took it back :-P