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

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[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] RojaBunny@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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 😂

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year 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.