exhausting CAPITALS ...

You do not state where you are located. In British English, a company could have a managing director or a chief accountant, who might hold degrees in business management or economics, and who might have worked in their companies' accounts or finance departments. All spellings and capitalisations as seen here.

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Aaaaaaaaah! Contrex, Une véritable cure, merci! Here the location's Brussels, the language is English, but heavily diluted by local Esperanto or Franglais. Judging from your profile you probably know the problem!

Back to the point: I was under the impression titles should not be in capitals unless they precede people's names: Lord Mayor Red Ken etc. Having trawled 160 pages of text making corrections accordingly I was suddenly seized by a feeling of doubt! Put it down to brain-eye frazzle. The text subject is hardly scintillating and is chiefly hatched in Euro-gibberish spawned by anything other than mother-tongue English speakers, never mind writers! The kind of task one might class as EXTREME translation: from gubbledygook to Queen's.

Just checked the map, never knew just where Contrex was before. Been to Mont d'Or, Vichy, Aix, Evian and a couple of others though... is the expression "living like god in France" apposite?

To say your help was refreshing sounds fitting somehow!
Thanks again.

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Well, I live in Perpignan, quite a long way from Contrexéville, but I do love this country very much.

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Goes to show that with the Net*, one should never jump to conclusions.
Perpignan certainly sounds more climatically privileged than Contrex. Are you a Blair refugee or do you just happen to work there?

Thanks again for the ultra-rapid response earlier. Appreciated. I wonder how many language life-savers on these boards ply their linguistic arts in an official capacity?

Bonne nuit

*No caps I guess!

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I love France and I work for an international company, so when they asked me to come here I jumped at it.

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Sounds rather jammy.