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Correct a French event biography that simplifies your background
Correct a French event biography by identifying an inaccurate label, offering preferred wording and confirming the final text without disclosing extra personal history.
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In short
Identify the wording to change and supply the version you want published. Je préfère la formulation suivante… gives the organiser a concrete replacement. You can correct a label without explaining every part of your background or accepting new biographical details.
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The organiser’s draft describes Lina as une artiste revenue dans son pays d’origine. Lina has lived in several places and does not want that label used for this event. The supplied facts concern the biography’s wording, not a judgement about how anyone else should describe their own trajectory.
- Voici la notice : « Lina, artiste revenue dans son pays d’origine, présentera son projet. » Est-ce bon pour vous ?Here is the biography: “Lina, an artist who returned to her country of origin, will present her project.” Is that all right?
Identify the unwanted wording and offer a preferred replacement.
- D’accord. Voulez-vous préciser les pays où vous avez vécu ?All right. Would you like to specify the countries where you have lived?
You want the event biography to focus on your current work.
- La version corrigée est donc : « Lina, artiste installée à Lyon, présentera son projet consacré aux espaces partagés. »The corrected version is therefore: “Lina, an artist based in Lyon, will present her project about shared spaces.”
The project description is accurate. Confirm this exact final version.
A specific alternative makes the correction actionable
Installée à Lyon states a current location relevant to the event. It does not claim to summarise Lina’s complete identity. The correction replaces the unwanted frame with the information she wishes to share. Another person might choose different wording for a similar biography.
Keep the biography focused on the event
Je préfère garder la notice centrée sur mon travail actuel limits the scope politely. The organiser can still produce an accurate useful introduction. Confirming the final version closes the loop and reduces the chance that an earlier draft is reused by mistake.
For a comparable message, send the old phrase, the replacement and one sentence confirming the desired scope. Ask for the final wording if needed, then respond to that version explicitly.