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Agree, 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
by igor_k 13y ago
Agree, 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.