minoration / majoration au mille significative

14:34 Mar 6, 2019 

Can anyone explain to me the OTHER REASON why this question was closed without grading.

14:30 Mar 6, 2019 

It is the increase per mille that is significant. That's why the French speaker (writer) put the adjective after the expression 'decrease/increase per mille'.

08:00 Mar 6, 2019 

It's not a "mistake" at all. The position of the adjective depends on what it qualifies. If "significative" qualifies "minoration", then it comes straight after it. If it qualifies "minoration au mille", then it comes after "mille". In other words, if "minoration au mille" is conceptualised by the speaker as a single compound noun, the adjective is where it should be. It's not quite as clearcut as "un chemin de fer moderne" rather than "un chemin moderne de fer", but it's the same basic principle.

07:37 Mar 6, 2019 

In my experience this 'mistake' of placing a qualifying adjective at the end of the noun phrase containing the qualified noun is so frequent in French that it can't really be considered wrong, even though it requires more effort to work back to identify the noun concerned0

19:44 Mar 4, 2019 

I think having proper French context would help a lot.
This is a common mistake - "significative" should go immediately after "minoration".

06:46 Mar 4, 2019 

Exactly what I was wondering!
I'm not sure about 'per thousand', really don't have enough context to tell for sure. I suspect it is possibly 'by thousand', with a subtly different meaning; if they are talking about doubling an order, then talking about any kind of thousands seems curious; unless it is short for 'au prix de mille pièces' — on the thousand-off price? In which case, yes, 'price per thousand' would then make sense.

06:31 Mar 4, 2019 

The point about the agreement struck me too. Unless there's a typo, "significative" must qualify "minoration": a significant or substantial reduction per thousand, I suppose.

05:53 Mar 4, 2019 

What exactly is being discussed here? Is this the price of the articles? From whose perspective is this?

That does seem to be a curious agreement:
'au mille' = m.
'significative' = f.
??

That would rather tend to rule out Asker's suggestion that it might mean 'to the nearest 1000', as in the sense of '3 significant figures' etc.