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> I don't know if au jour d'aujourd'hui sounds horribly redundant in French No, we use it to emphasize that what we're talking about is as of today, but we can
by jmnicolas 7y ago
> I don't know if au jour d'aujourd'hui sounds horribly redundant in French
No, we use it to emphasize that what we're talking about is as of today, but we can't make projections on the future.
You would use it in a sentence like : au jour d'aujourd'hui there are 'only' 300 deaths from the Chinese virus (implying that you don't know if it's going to get much worse or not).
- kalia35 7y agoAgree. It’s like a bad translation of “as of today”. It is kind of ugly though and to me it sounds awful, especially when you consider that you can replace it by the much more simple and elegant “à ce jour”.
- K0SM0S 7y ago“Au jour d'aujourd'hui” is most definitely bad grammar, or at bad least style, and thus I'm pretty sure it's wrong in the eyes of linguists, the Académie Française, etc. But I'm sure the French are not the only ones to elevate some bad grammar/style to a level of consensus. Proof that languages are living things!