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sp332 on April 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: IRC chat log of PSN hackers

Actually, neither précis nor résumé is native English. They are French, and in French they mean "summary".

pluies_public on April 28, 2011 [–]

"Résumé" does mean summary, but "précis" merely means "precise" in day-to-day French. Using it when you mean "summary" is incredibly old fashioned and a bit pompous; most people wouldn't even understand what you mean.

sp332 on April 28, 2011 | [–]

OK, cool.

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