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I get every week or so, but every day is just way too much. I'm a big kid, that's what you hired me for, let me work.
Also then there are Jour Fixes and standups for the side projects you got rented out too and and and
Jour Fixe
I don't think they use that term in English. And even more surprising, they don't even use it in French. It's a French loanword that somehow only exists in German.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I love these linguistic quirks.
It absolutely gets used in English speaking companies. I've got one in my work calendar as a reoccurring event.
I’ve lived in the US for about half a century and have never heard this.
Just to be sure, who created the invite? A German native speaker by chance?
The first page of results when I deliberately google in English "what is a Jour Fixe" are the following:
- Blog entry in English written by someone from a Liechtensteiner Organisation
- Blog entry in English written about the German usage of the Term
- English Wiktionary entry
- German Wikipedia article
- Blog entry in English written by someone from a German Organisation
- Translation website treating it as a German term
- Blog entry in English written by someone from Austria
- Translation website treating it as a German term
- Blog entry in German
- Blog entry in German
Some of that may be personalized to me as a Swiss user of course. But it seems a bit much to be a coincidence. Maybe it is a loan word making its way from German into English now.
I speak a little bit of German, but no, the guy who created the series is a native English speaker with Afrikaans as his second language.