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[–] RojaBunny 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] RojaBunny 3 points 10 months 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 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months 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.