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  • RojaBunny@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 years ago

    It’s used for indicating someone’s maiden name usually, just tongue-in-cheek I wager by whoever wrote the title.

    • slst
      2·
      2 years ago

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

      • RojaBunny@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years 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·
        2 years 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.