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My favourite type of self-care (lemmy.world)

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Jour Fixe

I don't think they use that term in English. And even more surprising, they don't even use it in French. It's a French loanword that somehow only exists in German.

[–] mogranja@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Interesting, thanks for sharing. I love these linguistic quirks.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It absolutely gets used in English speaking companies. I've got one in my work calendar as a reoccurring event.

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I’ve lived in the US for about half a century and have never heard this.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just to be sure, who created the invite? A German native speaker by chance?

The first page of results when I deliberately google in English "what is a Jour Fixe" are the following:

Some of that may be personalized to me as a Swiss user of course. But it seems a bit much to be a coincidence. Maybe it is a loan word making its way from German into English now.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I speak a little bit of German, but no, the guy who created the series is a native English speaker with Afrikaans as his second language.