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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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:

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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.