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Subject:Re: What are we in French? From:Marc Santacroce <santa -at- TFS -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 17 May 1995 10:54:07 -0800
At 8:09 AM 5/17/95, Vincent Reh wrote:
>In response to Melissa's request:
> My family and I will be in France this summer -- I'm so excited! -- and
> I'd like to be able to tell people we meet what I do. So what's
> "technical writer" in French?
> ***redacteur technique***
>Or should I just say that I'm a writer of
> software manuals? In that case, what's "software" in French?
> ***les logiciels***
>Not to mention "computer"
> ***l'ordinateur***
>Bon voyage!
>Vincent Reh
>Sr. Marketing Writer
>vincentr -at- sc -dot- harris -dot- com
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Je pense q'en Fran=E7ais, *software* est *software, et *computer* est
*computer*. Mais, alors, qu'est que je sais, car je parle Fran=E7ais comme
une vache Espa=F1ol.
M_a_r_c_ A. _S_a_n_t_a_c_r_o_c_e_________________________
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