The translation of “attractive” is a true minefield! Many translators know that “attractif” is a false friend of the English “attractive”, as “attractif” is used for things that attract by nature, a magnet for example, but then they often confuse between “attirant”, which means “which exerts an attraction force”, and “attrayant”, which means “which has appeal”.

In press releases, it’s frequent for US companies to refer to somebody by their full name once, and then by their first or last name only, as in:

It’s a surprise to most people that there are maybe more punctuation differences than linguistic differences between French for France and French for Canada.Basically, the main punctuation difference is that.