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From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU <CONLANG@...>
Date: Friday, January 12, 2001 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: Moi, le Kou (was: verbs = nouns?)
>En réponse à Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>:
>
> And even in
>> French, there were people who reinterpreted "Yvonne" as "Ivan" just to
>> be
>> annoying/amusing.
>
>Well, I suppose those people were not native French speakers. Because in
French
>Yvonne /i'vOn/ and Ivan /i'va~/ sound much too different to allow such
>reinterpretation.
Oh, definitely not. Sorry, context: it was a middle school first-year
French class. We struggled terribly trying to produce the French 'r'.
<apologetic look>
>> Christophe, pouvez-vous suggérer un (?) nom? :-p
>> ^^^^^^
> correct! :)
>
>If you want a surname looking like yours, I'd suggest Jeanne /'Zan/. The
most
>well known of them is no less than Jeanne d'Arc, so the image carried by
such a
>name is quite good (at least in France).
>
>I have a list of first names at home. If you want and can wait until Monday
:),
>I will look for some nice surnames.
I would be honored, in fact. :-) Merci beaucoup!
YHL