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X (née Twitter) wants to collect your biometric data and employment history (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by BrikoX to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/2168693

Archived version: https://archive.ph/7z5X3
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230901025209/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/x-nee-twitter-wants-to-collect-your-biometric-data-and-employment-history/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Née? Do english speakers use "born" in french as a substitute for formerly?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's used for indicating someone's maiden name usually, just tongue-in-cheek I wager by whoever wrote the title.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I mean yeah in france it is, don't you use born in english?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Sometimes, but in more official writing (like a bio or even Wikipedia) we'll use née. Just another word the English language stole from other languages 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Sometimes, but née is a more... Academic way of putting it. Like how academic papers use Latin phrases rather than their colloquial versions in English.

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