Re:Jolie, the service-oriented programming language
by rob74 on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @02:21AM
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I'm pretty sure you've heard of at least one person named Jolie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Jolie - but of course she's not French, I guess her parents picked the name because it sounded nice, and she thought it sounded so nice that she picked it as her stage name...
Re:Jolie, the service-oriented programming language
by misja111 on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @02:45AM
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Her mother had French-Canadian roots.
Re:Jolie, the service-oriented programming language
by soco on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @07:32AM
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I suppose the parent commenter mistook Jolie for Julie which is indeed a common French (and not only) name.
Re:Jolie, the service-oriented programming language
by afelixdorn on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @10:46AM
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Yeah, but that's a last name. I was talking about first names which is usually what people mean when they say a common name.
I'm guessing the other commenters are right, GP probably meant "Julie".
Re:Jolie, the service-oriented programming language
by yencabulator on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @11:43AM
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Angelina Jolie is a stage name. She was born Angelina Jolie Voight. Jolie is a middle name there.
Re:Jolie, the service-oriented programming language
by prmoustache on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:41AM
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Yeah Julie/juliette are common as a first name but do not share etymology (comes from julius).
A more common last name is Joly which is old form from joli, the masculine form of jolie.
According to data from INSEE (France's Census Bureau equivalent), since 1925, only 6 babies were named Jolie in 2011 and then 5 more in 2018.
There's a Joline which you'd pronounce pretty much like jolie as the n is very weak, but it's barely more popular.
Anyway, jolie does mean pretty, but it's not really a name (11~0 at this scale).