Re: Moi, le Kou (was: verbs = nouns?)

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>From: "Christophe Grandsire"
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>> > Hearing French people francify my name is agonizing to me (/dugla'/ or
>> > /duglas'/)! Blech!
>
>> Qu'est-ce qui ne va pas dans /duglas'/?
>
>Je vais rendre.
>
>> For me, it's the English pronunciation of Douglas that
>> make me blech :) .
>
>You just wait...
>
>> Drôle de nom composé, Paul-Gaston :) .
>
>> It sounds nice, but very much out-of-date :) (compounded names are not
>> fashionable anymore for a long time now, and Gaston is terribly
>old-fashioned :)
>
>Say it isn't so! Back in circa 1996, there was a show on the French cable
>channel in Taiwan called "Pyramide" (for Americans: a cross between
>"Password" and "The $25,000 Pyramid -- I used to do *really* well at home,
>boosting my French confidence to insufferable levels). Anyway, the regular
>female "celeb" was named Marie-Ange. Strikingly attractive; I was smitten
in
>spite of myself. If gorgeous game show divas can have a hyphenated name, so
>can I. As for old-fashioned, well, I haven't smoked a Gitane or played the
>concertina in quite a while, but je soupçonne que j'suis un peu plus vieux
>que Monsieur.
>
>> ). But it's cute, and I forecast a revival of old-fashioned French names
>within
>> the next years, so... :)
>
>CUTE!!? I was going for stud muffin.>

Funny, funny, funny, LOL and all that!!!! Thanks for brightening a dreary
day.
Roger (who is still recovering from Demerol and an unspeakable medical
"procedure".)