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name: content-locale-humanize-fr
title: "French Native-Fluency Calibration"
description: "Per-language calibration anchors for detecting AI-slop and translationese in French (fr) target text; auto-loads alongside content-locale-humanize when the target language is French."
license: Apache-2.0
- compatibility: "Extends content-locale-humanize's AI-Slop & Translationese dimension. Load both together — this file has no rubric of its own."
+ compatibility: "Calibration data only; no tools required. Network access helps for usage checks."
domains: content
rules:
- content(french)
- match(\bfr-(FR|CA|BE|CH)\b)
- match(\bFrench\b)
- match(\bfrançais\b)
- semantic(check if this French translation sounds native)
- semantic(eliminate translationese from this French text)
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## Overview
- Sourced calibration anchors for French, feeding `content-locale-humanize`'s AI-Slop & Translationese dimension. This is a calibration aid, not the checklist — reason natively beyond it (see the core skill's "why structure, not word lists" section).
+ Calibration anchors and current norms for French (fr-FR, fr-CA, fr-BE, fr-CH), feeding content-locale-humanize's dimensions. A calibration aid, not the checklist; reason natively beyond it.
- ## Instructions
+ ## Rules
- Sourcing confidence: solid. French has the most convergent, independently-reported sourcing of any language checked so far.
+ ### AI tells
- Connector pileup: de plus, en outre, par ailleurs, donc, cependant, ainsi — nearly every paragraph.
+ Sourcing confidence: solid; convergent, independently reported sources.
- Cliché metaphors (English AI-isms calqued): plonger dans, naviguer, s'embarquer.
+ - Connector pileup: de plus, en outre, par ailleurs, donc, cependant, ainsi, nearly every paragraph.
+ - Calqued English metaphors: plonger dans, naviguer, s'embarquer.
+ - Power words: crucial, essentiel, vital. Stock: en constante évolution, tapisserie, nuance, en conclusion.
+ - Construction: "non seulement… mais aussi…" on repeat.
- Power words: crucial, essentiel, vital.
+ ### Translationese from English
- Stock: en constante évolution, tapisserie, nuance, en conclusion.
+ - Anglicisms: "faire du sens" (avoir du sens), "adresser un problème" (traiter), "supporter" for prendre en charge, "être en charge de" (être chargé de), "définitivement" for certainement, "opportunité" for occasion.
+ - Passive chains and possessives where French uses the article; Title Case headings; "2ème" for 2e.
- Construction: "non seulement… mais aussi…".
+ ### Current norms
+ - Typography (France): no-break space before : and narrow no-break space before ; ! ? and inside « ». Quebec (OQLF): no space before ; ! ?, space before :. Accented capitals (É, À) are standard.
+ - Register: vous for most brand and B2B copy; tu only when the brand guide uses it. Hold one.
+ - Inclusive writing: the 21 November 2017 circular excludes the point médian from official texts, and the Académie française opposes it. Follow the client guide; otherwise prefer doublets ("les candidates et les candidats") and epicene nouns.
+ - fr-CA vocabulary follows OQLF (courriel, clavardage) where the audience is Québécois.
+
## References
- alexiacontenuillimite.substack.com, startups-nation.fr, gpthuman.ai.
+ Reviewed 2026-10-12. AI tells: alexiacontenuillimite.substack.com, startups-nation.fr, gpthuman.ai. Norms: [OQLF Vitrine linguistique](https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/), Académie française, Lexique des règles typographiques en usage à l'Imprimerie nationale.