A word about résumés.

Re:A word about résumés. by hellomika on Sunday February 20, 2011 @04:17PM (#2243115)

Frenchie here. Résumé is written with two "é". Otherwise it's a typo (e != é).

In french, résumé literally means "summary", and it's anything but a synonym for CV. I'm not sure how it ended up being a borrowed word used that way in US english.

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Re:A word about résumés. by Mz on Sunday February 20, 2011 @04:20PM (#2243123)

I'm not sure how it ended up being a borrowed word used that way in US english.

Then you probably don't want to know what we did with your word for "shower".*

English is just weird like that, I think.

* Which is the same as the word for "shower" in German. I have some good stories from my childhood about such misunderstandings...

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