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Re: Some European names
by Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)
10/5/2005, 3:59 PM
in reply to a message by Miss Claire
Could it be possible that "Hacen" is someone's respelling of Hassan to try to get native French speakers to pronounce that name in a way that's closer to the original Arabic pronunciation? Or wouldn't that work?
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- Maggie_Simpson   +1
10/15/2005, 1:04 PM
Lenka, Daniela, Bohumil, Dalibor, Eduard, Ilja/Ilya, Svatopluk, Roman
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- Maggie_Simpson
10/20/2005, 3:10 AM
- ADT   +3
10/5/2005, 4:53 PM
No, it wouldn't a French "c" is a "k" unless it has an accent. And s = s sound in French. So no.
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- Jenna (Jenna R)   +1
10/5/2005, 6:01 PM
But in Hacen, the C is soft because it's followed by an E. Only CO and CA require a cedille (accent)."Les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le coeur." -- Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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- Chrisell
10/5/2005, 5:01 PM
This might be a bit of a stretch, but could it be a strange respelling of Haakon / Hagen etc?
♦ Chrisell ♦All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.

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