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

En réponse à DOUGLAS KOLLER <LAOKOU@...>:

>
> Hearing French people francify my name is agonizing to me (/dugla'/ or
> /duglas'/)! Blech!
Qu'est-ce qui ne va pas dans /duglas'/? :) Well, French people do have another
sense of aesthetics :) . For me, it's the English pronunciation of Douglas that
make me blech :) .

 (And then there was the Spanish friend in university
> who
> called me /dug'li/ {Lord, take me now}.) I went off the board (i.e.
> wasn't
> even gonna look for something that started with a "D"), and thought
> "Paul-Gaston" sounded ultra-chouette, but I haven't really had the
> occasion
> to try it out. Christophe, qu'est-ce que tu en penses?
>
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It sounds nice, but very much out-of-date :) (compounded names are not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 :)
). But it's cute, and I forecast a revival of old-fashioned French names within
the next years, so... :)

> Assurez-vous, mesdames et messieurs, de mes sentiments les meilleurs,
>
Merci bien.

> Paul-Gaston de Kou ;)
>
Christophe de Grandsire (well, even French people think "Grandsire" is a noble
name, because it can be discomposed into "grand" and "sire". I once nicknamed
myself C.G. Highsir :) ).

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