Re: OT: Jules (fi: syllables)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 14, 2003, 19:19 |
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En réponse à Tristan :
>In English (or Melbourne at least), people often call * asterixes. Has
>Asterix had the same effect on French?
Actually, it's the contrary. The character Astérix was named after the
French name for the * symbol: "astérisque", just like Obélix has its name
from "obélisque". People don't usually make a mistake in the ending (-isque
is quite a common French ending, -ix is definitely foreign).
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
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