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Help[Opinions] Re: Anastasie
in reply to a message by xPrincess27x
It reminds me a bit of Ilya Nastase ("nah-STAH-zee"), the male (Romanian?) tennis player from the 1970's. But I have pleasant memories of his humor so it's not a bad association. That does put me more in the mind of Romanian names than French ones, but the slightly exotic air it lends is appealing to me today.
So that's a long winded way of saying I like it very much. :-) But I wouldn't pronounce it exactly the same way you do. I'd keep the stress more evenly disbursed and falling more, if at all, on the third syllable. I know the conventional wisdom is that all stress falls on the last syllable of French words / names. But in practice I'm not so sure that's entirely true. But I may be stuck on the Ilya Nastase reference / pronunciation so don't quote me on this.
Anastasie Martine
Anastasie Solange
Anastasie Maria
Anastasie Pauline
Anastasie Therese
Anastasie Liv
Anastasie Mileva ("mi-LAY-vuh")
Anastasie Valentine / Valentina
Anastasie Melusine
Anastasie Nicole
Happy hunting!
So that's a long winded way of saying I like it very much. :-) But I wouldn't pronounce it exactly the same way you do. I'd keep the stress more evenly disbursed and falling more, if at all, on the third syllable. I know the conventional wisdom is that all stress falls on the last syllable of French words / names. But in practice I'm not so sure that's entirely true. But I may be stuck on the Ilya Nastase reference / pronunciation so don't quote me on this.
Anastasie Martine
Anastasie Solange
Anastasie Maria
Anastasie Pauline
Anastasie Therese
Anastasie Liv
Anastasie Mileva ("mi-LAY-vuh")
Anastasie Valentine / Valentina
Anastasie Melusine
Anastasie Nicole
Happy hunting!
This message was edited 3/20/2008, 11:36 AM
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