Timeline for Addressing people with prénoms composés who are close to you
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| Jul 22, 2016 at 7:15 | comment | added | MakorDal | As a good example, all of my mother's family women are colled "Marie-Something". Most of them took nickname instead : Marie-Elise became Marlise or Elisabeth, Marie-Christine is called Christiane,... | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 21:06 | history | edited | jlliagre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2014 at 20:30 | history | edited | jlliagre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2014 at 12:54 | comment | added | jlliagre | @Édouard I'm afraid you misread my answer. While I indeed wrote a "prénom composé" is a first name, not a first and middle one, all of the remaining of my posting is just opinion and advice. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 11:48 | comment | added | Édouard | But if there is no such rule, why write your answer as if there was? | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 11:23 | history | edited | Stéphane Gimenez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2014 at 11:05 | comment | added | jlliagre | @Édouard That's why I wrote almost never and not never. There are indeed always "exceptions" as there is no rule in the first place. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 10:59 | comment | added | Édouard | We call my brother by the first half of its composed name more often than not, and another friend of mine does the same (granted, the two half of his name are very unusual — as in never heard of any of them before meeting him). | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 10:36 | comment | added | Un francophone | I came to say never use a nickname unless you know other people already do it. I've also a compound given name and I'm not annoyed by people trying to use any shortened version of it, as nobody try without any hint. Sometimes initials, but the context then include a list where everybody is designated by their initials (and the initials include my family name). | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 10:28 | comment | added | mouviciel | I've seen some french people maintain confusion on prénom composé vs. first and middle name. E.g., Jean-Jacques using Jean J. with its international contacts. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 8:38 | history | edited | jlliagre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2014 at 8:29 | history | answered | jlliagre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |