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The client is French. Including a French copy of the message is entirely mundane.
by hgsgm 3y ago
The client is French. Including a French copy of the message is entirely mundane.
- wkat4242 3y agoThe French invented the word chauvinism :) They take their language very seriously likewise. I work for a French company and even though the official language is English you're kind of a second rate citizen if you don't speak it. Or write last names in all caps or quotation marks like <<>> :) They just are that way :P
- Kuinox 3y ago> Or write last names in all caps or quotation marks like <<>> :) Things we don't do much anymore in France.
- wkat4242 3y agoOh really?? In our company it still happens a lot. Especially the all caps last names are standard. Even in many non french countries. The quotation chevrons I've seen only in some people's output indeed.
- Sunspark 3y agoAll caps started becoming more popular in English because a lot of people now have names where the first and last names are interchangeable and it was causing uncertainty.
- eloisius 3y agoI wouldn’t mind this becoming an international standard. Going back and forth between the west and Asia, no one is ever sure upon first look which is my given name and which is my surname because of it being written in a different order across different ID cards, registration forms, etc.
- ehPReth 3y agono shouting everywhere please :(. maybe an underline?
- Glawen 3y agoCaps are much easier to handle in database. All customers family names are stored in caps at my company (in France). It really avoids confusion when you call them
- qwery 3y agoI suppose I wouldn't mind it either, so to speak. But I think you should just get assigned an ID number at birth. Ideally it would encode the place and time of your birth, parents' ID numbers and sibling count, what the weather was like when you were born and what was forecast, ...
- JodieBenitez 3y agoOnly because most text editors suck.
- Glawen 3y agoAnd half off the websites incorrectly treating é or è encoding, forcing you to omit these when writing your name. It is incredible how badly foreign languages are supported
- pixelpoet 3y agoSpace before exclamation or question mark is basically 100% accurate indicator of Francophone writing.
- Foobar8568 3y agoAnd if you ever work in any other countries, you would see the same in different language. Work in a Swiss company? Hope you enjoy German. At one stage, French people has to stop this self deprecating and think elsewhere is much better and only French does this or that. It is not.
- sealeck 3y agoDepends on the Swiss company – some speak French!
- palata 3y agoAnd some speak Italian! Small note though: I highly doubt they speak German... that would rather be Swiss-German.
- Glawen 3y agoSo in Scotland they speak Scottish-English? Irish-english in Ireland? What's your proficiency in these languages ?
- bombolo 3y agogermans can't understand swiss german.
- Glawen 3y agoPretty much doubt it.
- bjoli 3y agoAs a German speaker that has worked in Zürich, the parent is correct. Wikipedia has the following to say: The dialects that comprise Swiss German must not be confused with Swiss Standard German, the variety of Standard German used in Switzerland. Swiss Standard German is fully understandable to all speakers of Standard German, while many people in Germany – especially in the north – do not understand Swiss German.
- palata 3y ago> They take their language very seriously likewise. [...] second rate citizen if you don't speak it. Try to not speak English in a US company, I guess?
- wkat4242 3y agoI'm not based in France at all though!
- erremerre 3y agoDont forget writing time with a h separator. We met at 15h45.
- benj111 3y agoIf I were to send a document overseas I would make sure to also include my native language. A) because if there's confusion at my translation, it's possible for them to translate the original to make sense B) if it goes to my local court, we can discuss what was said in my local language.