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

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Saturday, January 13, 2001, 0:54
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>From: "Christophe Grandsire" > >> > 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 It sounds nice, but very much out-of-date :) (compounded names are not 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
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>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".)