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Yesterday I was writing an email in Spanish and I put it into DeepL machine learning translation to translate it back to French for me to check if what I wrote
by jobigoud 5y ago
Yesterday I was writing an email in Spanish and I put it into DeepL machine learning translation to translate it back to French for me to check if what I wrote made enough sense to be parsed.
I ended the mail with a "Cordialmente" ( ~ Cordially) as it was informal, and it translated this single word to "Veuillez agréer, Madame, Monsieur, l'expression de mes sentiments les plus distingués", which is about the most formal formula possible.
- rntksi 5y agoDoes anyone end email that way (in French)? Most I've seen are "Bien à vous" or "Bonne journée". Actually... what are the most common endings in French emails? Thinking that a website that had all of those sorted out, categorised by language and degree of formality, would be really useful. Sometimes people just want the equivalent of "Cheers" in e.g. Spanish?
- scrollaway 5y ago"veuillez agréer..." etc is still in use but extremely formal. I can't think of a similarly formal expression in English, other than "I am your most humble and obedient servant".