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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by latexr on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:53PM (#46877148)
> Gotta give them props for all the English. I know that can't have been easy.

Why not? Plenty of French people speak English at a native level.

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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by phito on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @05:36PM (#46878348)
As a francophone, I can tell you that the vast majority doesn't.
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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by eloisant on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @05:50PM (#46878529)
Among software developers, the vast majority does.
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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by phito on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @07:15AM (#46884930)
definitely not at a native level...
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Re:France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital auton... by latexr on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @10:05AM (#46886702)
Why are you nitpicking this? Are all French people incompetent laggards at speaking English? No, definitely not. There’s nothing about being French which makes you incapable of typing English text and maybe even *gasp* using a spell and grammar checker. The GitHub org shows seven people, is it so hard to believe they’re not absolute dolts at English? Why are you hell bent on insulting yourself?

https://github.com/orgs/suitenumerique/people

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