On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 01:29, Anthere wrote:
Julie de Lespinasse She was a passionate... But she should be "de Lespinasse". That is a bit of a problem.
Please be advised that there is a more significant consideration here than the necessary addition of "de".
In the Finnish language there is a real possibility that "Lespinasse" would be parsed: "lisping alcoholic pedophile". To explain; "lespi" can be with ill will construed as an adverb denoting the property of having a lisp (Any lisp code working our servers? Didn't think so.)
And "Nasse"? Well Nasse was a clown fairly popular on Finnish TV (portrayed by a genius actor, Vesa-Matti Loiri) whose shctick was to quiz children on their habits on the potty to a ludicrously explicit degree, while taking mock surreptious swigs out of his bottle. If you think this is strange, I can assure his act was stranger than you can possibly imagine. (Catchphrase: "Uncle Nasse is veery angry now!") Well, on the other hand, he did used to wear a "polytechnic student cap" (i.e. the ceremonial cap of engineering students).
Anyway, good night., and thank you for your time,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen (aka Cimon Avaro)
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