On 26.04.2004 09:51, Sylvain Wallez wrote:
:-) This translation is the right one. I'm always amazed to see that French is a foreign language for you and Marc, whose names sound so much more frenchy that many french people's name, including mine ;-)
Isn't Sylvain *the* French name? I only met two French men IRL, both were named Sylvain - if that's a criteria :) The one were you, the other one worked for Elf Aquitane near by here in Leuna.
Well, actually Sylvain _is_ french although not very frequent (strange coincidence that made you meet two of them), but I was more referring to my last name, Wallez.
In my family, this name is said to come from Belgium at a time when it was dominated by Spain (16th century). Wallez comes from "Wallonie" (the french speaking part of Belgium, and the spanish "-ez" suffix found e.g. in Martinez, Rodriguez which I've been said to mean "son of". So I'm actually a spanish belgian ;-)
"Bruno Dumon" and "Marc Portier" sound so much more typically french both by their names and firstnames!
Who knows, maybe I'm actually one of their distant cousins ;-)
Sylvain
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