Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
impacté
English translation:
impacted
French term
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Native in: French 
Works in: English to French, Dutch to French, French to English, and 1 more.
impacté
Voici la phrase :
qui révèle que les défauts de compétences en langues font perdre des affaires aux entreprises européennes. On peut discuter des ratios calculés. Constater en effet que 11 % des entreprises disent perdre des marchés à cause d'insuffisance en langues, ne nous dit pas le volume d'affaires impacté
| 4 +3 | impacted |
kashew
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| 5 +3 | affected |
Jennifer Forbes
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| Faithfull or correct? |
Didier Fourcot
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Non-PRO (2): philgoddard, Gregory Flanders
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Proposed translations
impacted
Finance, law, property development, art
Native in: English
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English
affected
Reference comments
Faithfull or correct?
"impacté" is not proper French, "impact" is a noun in French also, the verb exists in Petit Robert since 2007 only and clearly mentioned as not so correct buzz-word
Conversely a translator is supposed to use a correct wording, and in this case he should do "better than source", which is not exactly difficult, we do not translate mispellings or grammar mistakes, or do we?
The very subject of the sentence "lack of linguistic skills" shows precisely in the wording used to express it, and if this is the native language of the writer, we may assume that he could be "perfectly bilingual" per the joke that defines this term as "doing as many mistakes in both languages"
http://dardel.info/Sprache.html#impacter
http://gareaugrandchauve.free.fr/dotclear/index.php?q=impacter
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