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/
I mean yeah in france it is, don’t you use born in english?
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 😂
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.