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I feel like this is perhaps fake. The first post read well to me, seemed reasonable, at least the first time through. The second post, about the job, is what ga
by orofino 13y ago
I feel like this is perhaps fake. The first post read well to me, seemed reasonable, at least the first time through. The second post, about the job, is what gave me suspicion.
The way he quits, the feeling of "liberation", it borders on sociopathic in some ways. Pretending you're going on holiday when in reality you're going to die, who has time for such games when they've got a 30 day timer running.
It reads like a movie, not like my experience with reality.
- igor_k 13y agoAgree, the second post is a giveaway - plus some words French professionals don't use such as "plan pension". Same for the thord. The first post is really good though.
- seren 13y agoI also stumbled over "plan pension", I have not heard anyone used that wording before. Could it be more common in Canada ?
- alanctgardner2 13y agoNever heard it in Quebecois French, Anglicisms like that tend to be continental French in my experience. Or Chiac.
- kohanz 13y agoYes, for English speaking Canadians a "pension plan" is a common phrase. No idea about French-speaking Canadians.
- jdangu 13y agoLooks like it's a term used in Belgium: https://www.google.fr/search?q=%22plan+pension%22&lr=lang_fr https://www.google.fr/search?q=%22plan+pension%22&lr=lan...
- igor_k 13y agoSeems that they use "pension" more than we french, but still the expression seems "plan de pension" http://www.fonds127.be/index.php?id=25&L=1 http://www.fonds127.be/index.php?id=25&L=1 Makes more sens than french canadian though.
- Yeri 13y agoépargne pension is more common in Belgium, though. Although, as Belgian, plan pension doesn't seem that odd to me. (plan pension is a literal translation from dutch: pensioen plan)
- bsaul 13y agoplan pension doesn't mean anything in french, at all. Plan "de" pension would (maybe) means something like retirement pension plan, but i've never heard anyone say that here. Since it's used twice in the text, it's not a typo. So maybe the author is canadian (they tend to mix english with french differently than in France).. It does looks very fake. The engineer says he is also a hobbyist writer, so maybe he has a taste for romanticism, but i think it is way too much stylized to be a real testimony. It definitely reads like what contemporary french author writes.
- igor_k 13y agoI also thought it could be canadian, but there's no other sign of French-canadian expression in the text. The french term would be "retraite", or "retraite complémentaire" and there's few companies that give pension packages except for top executives. Seems at lost with the experience of a true white collar.
- xutopia 13y agoI've live in France and in Quebec for a good portion of my life. Couldn't the "plan pension" be a contraction like "plan cul"? I agree that "plan retraite" would sound more French and "plan pension" would sound more North American French but it doesn't sound like an anglicism to me and the rest of the tone is clearly not North American French to me.
- sheri 13y agoIsn't it presumptuous to say that this isn't a 'normal' reaction? I have no idea what a normal reaction to being told you have 30 days to live is. Even if you have seen real (non-movie) instances of this, I would assume different people would have different reactions.
- 300bps 13y agoThese come up every day on reddit, and almost all of them turn out to be fake. There was a guy about two weeks ago that claimed to have Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer at age 24. He got thousands of upvotes, got a celebrity from the band Blink 182 to tweet to him, etc. Exposed as fake because he used someone's actual identity he found on Google who did not have cancer. This line is an incredible clue that it is fake: >I do not want to go into details about the disease. I do not want to go into the particularities of my life. And because time is short, there will be no comments, no contact address. Hard to prove false when literally no information is given. These two lines are interesting though: >I am 58 years old and I never will 59. I will die in 2013. >Yesterday, I had the whole life ahead of me. Thirty or forty years, at least. Today thirty days. Either he's losing track of his lies, he's bad at math or he has unrealistic expectations about life expectancy. If a 58 year old had "thirty or forty years, at least" ahead of him that means that he was expecting to live to "at least" 98 years old. EDIT: Here are links to Day 2 and Day 3 translations. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Funcondamne.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F52127098365%2Fjour-2 http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl... http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Funcondamne.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F52209627415%2Fjour-3 http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&tl...
- celticninja 13y agonot sure what is wrong with a life expectancy of 88 or 98 years of age.
- 300bps 13y agoBecause that's much higher than average life expectancy. A male 58 year old in 2009 could expect to live to 80. Source: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
- hluska 13y agoIt is an 8 year difference...that's hardly material, especially if you consider that people from France are known to exaggerate slightly for effect.
- coldtea 13y ago>It reads like a movie, not like my experience with reality. You had much experience of being told you have 30 days to live?
- themstheones 13y agoIt's pretty much exactly the plot of "One Week": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Week_%282008_film%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Week_%282008_film%29
- venomsnake 13y agoNo but I have lost some close friends and relatives and when they are so close the end it was always ugly and disorderly.
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- esalazar 13y agoI also find it strange that he only follows journalists on twitter. [Edit] Link to twitter https://twitter.com/uncondamne/following https://twitter.com/uncondamne/following
- jvzr 13y agoOne of his first tweets says how it's funny that Twitter only recommend journalists to follow. He clearly is a new user, as he had his son set it up for him.
- esalazar 13y agoJust saying that it is strange. When I set up twitter for my mother (about the same age as this guy) the first thing that I did was show her how to follow somebody, and that person was me. Why doesn't he follow his son, or anybody else other than journalists? It just seems off imo.
- PavlovsCat 13y agoAll this establishes is that the person in question is not your mother.
- mmq 13y agoProbably, because he said that he doesn't want to go into his family details. He wants to keep his identity secret. Also the fact that he didn't tell his company about his illness would be a justification.
- esalazar 13y agoFair enough and good points.
- hokkos 13y agoHe said on his twitter >Mon fils me montre comrent tweeter depuis mon téléphone. Tweeter me suggère de suivre plein de journalistes. Amusant! >My son shows me how to use tweeter from my phone. Tweeter suggests me to follow a lot of journalists. Funny !
- xutopia 13y agoI'm a French native and I read the original 3 posts. If this is fake, which is a possibility, it still reads beautifully. Clearly the person who is writing this put a lot of thought into the idea he's expressing and for the record he does sound like a reasonably smart mid-to-upper management type he states he is.