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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Frank Legros</b>
on <!--date-->19:07 5/29/02
<p>In reply to: <a href="425.html">Kanaran</a> posted by Frank Legros</b> on 21:43 5/28/02
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Hi, Mark
<p>"Le Pen" is NEVER pronounced with a nasal vowel, but with an open <B>e</B>
sound, as if it were written "Le Penn", or as if it were the English word
"pen".
<p>A short though pedantic explanation: "Pen" means "head" in Breton and in
other Celtic languages. Le Pen's surname is not French... "Le" is of course
the French definite article, the name is a half-translation from the full
Breton name which must have been something like "Ar pen" (The <B>p</B> would
lenited in Breton after the definite article, but I can't remember how:
ven? ben?). "Le Pen" means THE HEAD. Funny, isn't it?
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>Neat-- thanks for the explanation. BTW, a writer for <i>Slate</i> is
in France this week, <a href="http://slate.msn.com//?id=2066297&entry=2066262">trying to figure you people out</a>.
Rather like Baudrillard in reverse, he mostly uses the occasion to make
points about America.
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