Talk:Louis-François Lejeune

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Pronunciation
I removed
 * pronounced LUH JERN

from the top, and
 * (pronounced Luh-JERN)

from the bottom, of the accompanying article. Besides their differing, i believe there is no English-J sound in French (French J is like English Zh, as in meaSure or Russian Zhukov), so presumably neither is correct. They may be close as to the -eune part, since i understand Camp Lejeune, after a decade or two of neglect via "le-june" or "le-zhune", is reviving a distinctly if not explicitly R-ish sound just before the N. (I'm hedging bcz i doubt they expect recruits to acquire the proper French pronunciation, as opposed to getting far enuf from Dumb-American, in the direction of French, to be noticed. And bcz i suspect linguists regard any similar French R-ishness as being as much part of the vowel as the nasalization at the end of French bon is part of the vowel sound. That would contrast to the R in Burns being treated -- by at least non-linguist Americans -- as one of a string of consonants that only start once the vowel is done.)   When what is to be communicated gets sorted out, the information goes inside the same parentheses as his vital stats, IIRC; MOS:BIO should be authoritative as to the details. --Jerzy•t 07:27, 10 August 2010 (UTC)