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Re:The Api Paradox by jacques_chester on Thursday April 11, 2013 @05:49AM (#5530901)
Well in all fairness, outside of La Francophonie, "Jacques" is not a common name. And for English speakers it's just chock full of exciting traps. My favourite is putting 'c' and 'q' next to each other. In French that's a single sound; in English it says "new syllable, please!

edit:

> Jacqueses! (Jacuqi?)

Jacqueses would be closest (-ii is a Latin pluralisation, Jacques comes from Jacob which is Hebrew).

There's an impedance mismatch here: English stores plurality in the word, French stores it in the sentence.

Re:The Api Paradox by Gmo on Thursday April 11, 2013 @07:12AM (#5531148)
I do think he is from Dutch origin though (Because he talked in the past about one of his experience with QNX in the Netherlands)
Re:The Api Paradox by jacquesm on Thursday April 11, 2013 @10:44AM (#5532241)
Dutch is correct.
Re:The Api Paradox by jacques_chester on Thursday April 11, 2013 @07:44AM (#5531266)
I was under the impression he was Belgian.
Re:The Api Paradox by Gmo on Thursday April 11, 2013 @09:00AM (#5531617)
Ha yes, also possible :)
Re:The Api Paradox by lifeisstillgood on Thursday April 11, 2013 @06:24AM (#5530999)
Would a good translation of La Francophonie be "the French-speaking world"?
Re:The Api Paradox by jacques_chester on Thursday April 11, 2013 @06:30AM (#5531017)
It'd be clearer, but much less fun to put it that way :D