French term
France
Native in: English
jour.homme de chef de projet
Maintenance corrective mensuelle - 1 jour.homme de chef de projet
Maintenance adaptative mensuelle - 1 jour.homme de développeur informatique
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Tony M
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Jan 23, 2020 16:25: Rachel Fell changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
PRO (1): Yolanda Broad
Non-PRO (3): Tony M, Jennifer White, Rachel Fell
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Proposed translations
man/day, Project Leader
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writeaway
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Thanks, W/A!
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Philippe Etienne
: Please please please, maybe it's less painful to British eyes but / is to divide and . to multiply. Just as torque wouldn't read well in N/m, Man.day! Or is it any different (read more complacent) in English?
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Merci, Phlippe ! Yes, I do know that, strictly speaking, that is correct — but the '.' is very rarely used in EN outside technical circles, the / is far more common and well understood, as in EN it can also be read as 'per'.
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Philippa Smith
: "person" not "man" - and would the formula "person-day" work rather than the slash? Not totally sure about the difference!) / My research showed "person-day" in extensive use too and here clearly a project leader and IT developer could easily be women.:-)
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Thanks, Philippa! While I am the first to advocate gender-neutral language, it seems that 'manhours' and 'man/days' obstinately remain in use. As for using a hyphen, yes, you could — though I think it would then be better to fall back on P's accurate '.'
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Discussion
And I wouldn't use it with 'of' either — at best, it would be 'for' in EN.
But I firmly believe my own suggestion using just a comma is best — not least, because it is readily adaptable to any other post descriptions you might come accross.