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

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

>
> > 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 It sounds nice, but very much out-of-date :) (compounded names are not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.
>
He he he, there are exceptions of course (you're talking about Marie-Ange Nardy.
She left Pyramide to present her own game: "Qui est qui?" - Who's who? -). I
like this woman too, and the game "Pyramide" also, too bad that I cannot follow
it anymore (it's still on on French TV). By the way, my mother has the very
unique and beautiful first name Ange-Marie (from what I know, it was a mistake
of here father when he wrote her name on the birth certificate: she should have
been called Ange, with second name Marie, but he wrote a hyphen instead of a
comma. Anyway the name stuck somehow), but she doesn't like it and prefers to
reverse the components into the much more common Marie-Ange (and the ones who
don't call her that way are not welcome at all :) )... too bad...

Anyway, it doesn't change the fact that compound names are quite common in my
parents' generation, nearly disappeared in mine, and completely gone in the
generation below me. That you can call old-fashioned I think :) . I still
forecast a revival of old-fashioned French names anyway (people begin to be fed
up with the English first names: we've had our load of Kevins, Sabrinas, Pamelas
and the like :) ).

Christophe.

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