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Re: USAGE: syllables

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Friday, June 13, 2003, 14:39
En réponse à Andreas Johansson :


>It's all Caesar's fault*. There was nothing wrong with _Quintilis_, you >egomaniac!
Well, *he* didn't change the name of the month. That was done after he was dead. For egomania, better look at Augustus ;))) .
>* Someone might recall that I tend to refer to Khrushchev as "Krusse". >Similarly, I (and the history-interested part of my family) refer to C. Iulius >Caesar as "Julle" ['j8l:E]. This particular nickname is from the Swedish >translation of "Asterix"; can some Francophone tell me what the French >original was?
"Jules" [Zyl]. It's just a French first name (a bit outdated). I think it is the direct descendant of the Latin name IVLIVS. Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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