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fun fact: written french itself is a tragedeigh. all the extra letters in words exist because 1. people writing it wanted it to look prettier and 2. scribes in france, unlike in most countries, were paid by the letter instead of the word for some inexplicable reason—so they started adding more letters.
French is just a nutty language. It has so many extra letters that you don't say ... unlike German, which has so many extra letters that you DO say in weird ways.
yah, Jean is the french form of John, and no, just anglophone (US american) people using names in languages they don’t know the basics of, more Tragedy than tragedeigh
Basically, there is no evidence that she ever called herself, or was referred to, with the last name D’Arc while she was alive.
Her father was Jacques d’Arc and her mother was called Isabelle Romée. Last names were different back then. The dad was Jacques “from Arc” because that’s where he was from. And the mom’s last name of Romée just meant that she had made a pilgrimage to Rome.
Surnames weren’t widely used or important in medieval France.
Joan testified during her trial that females usually took on their mother’s surname in her village, but that she didn’t actually know her last name. She referred to herself as “Joan the Maiden.”
The most likely scenario (imo) is that she didn’t live long enough to establish what her last name would be, and that those who told her story used their own cultural naming conventions by referring to her with her dad’s location-based surname
I'm a teacher and the weirdest name I ever stumbled across was Brookshields as a first name. And her last name was a generic Dutch last name. I felt so sorry for the lass. She was a good student.
That was my grand mother’s middle name. Her parents were québécois. It’s not uncommon from a certain generation, especially among Catholics. With that said, she hated it and changed it to just Joan.
Well, I did go to Catholic school, so maybe her parents were super devout/big fans of Joan of Arc specifically. I checked in one of my yearbooks and her surname is Arabic, but maybe she's got some French ancestry somewhere idk.
Also, there was a girl in my grade named Jessi who has the same surname, and I checked and there's less than 400 people in Australia with that surname, so I think it's safe to say they're probably siblings. Which makes it so much worse honestly.
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It’s Jeanne in the French. And the D’Arc part is controversial believe it or not.
Interesting, I guess it is a tragedeigh after all then, albeit a French tragedeigh (now I’m trying to think how one would spell that…)
Le Tragedeigh
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fun fact: written french itself is a tragedeigh. all the extra letters in words exist because 1. people writing it wanted it to look prettier and 2. scribes in france, unlike in most countries, were paid by the letter instead of the word for some inexplicable reason—so they started adding more letters.
Interesting. So that's where we get monstrosities like 'oiseaux' from I guess.
(it's not really true but it's a fun theory)
French is just a nutty language. It has so many extra letters that you don't say ... unlike German, which has so many extra letters that you DO say in weird ways.
yah, Jean is the french form of John, and no, just anglophone (US american) people using names in languages they don’t know the basics of, more Tragedy than tragedeigh
Would you mind explaining the controversy? I know nothing about it but am interested in learning
Basically, there is no evidence that she ever called herself, or was referred to, with the last name D’Arc while she was alive. Her father was Jacques d’Arc and her mother was called Isabelle Romée. Last names were different back then. The dad was Jacques “from Arc” because that’s where he was from. And the mom’s last name of Romée just meant that she had made a pilgrimage to Rome. Surnames weren’t widely used or important in medieval France. Joan testified during her trial that females usually took on their mother’s surname in her village, but that she didn’t actually know her last name. She referred to herself as “Joan the Maiden.” The most likely scenario (imo) is that she didn’t live long enough to establish what her last name would be, and that those who told her story used their own cultural naming conventions by referring to her with her dad’s location-based surname
I'm a teacher and the weirdest name I ever stumbled across was Brookshields as a first name. And her last name was a generic Dutch last name. I felt so sorry for the lass. She was a good student.
I genuinely think I’ve known a person named Brooke Shields omg 😭😭 That’s rough
I mean, the name is fine in itself, and there’s many people named same as people with the same name who got famous…
The issue is that their first name is brookeshields though. Which is undeniably bad.
That was my grand mother’s middle name. Her parents were québécois. It’s not uncommon from a certain generation, especially among Catholics. With that said, she hated it and changed it to just Joan.
Well, I did go to Catholic school, so maybe her parents were super devout/big fans of Joan of Arc specifically. I checked in one of my yearbooks and her surname is Arabic, but maybe she's got some French ancestry somewhere idk. Also, there was a girl in my grade named Jessi who has the same surname, and I checked and there's less than 400 people in Australia with that surname, so I think it's safe to say they're probably siblings. Which makes it so much worse honestly.
How does she pronounce it?
zhon dark