English to French Other Economics Currency Performance -- Euro

The French, it seems, do not use the word “brutal” in quite the way the English do. XXX, the French president of the Central Bank, reached for this **arresting adjective** earlier this week to describe the euro’s recent gains against the dollar—the single currency eventually reached a record price of $1.30 on Wednesday November 10th. But according to a translator, writing in the Financial Times, Mr Trichet’s comments were not as alarming as they sound. When the French describe a change as brutal, they mean it is sudden, not cruel or vicious.

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