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This is unrelated to the actual link, but I am always surprised by the English language tendency to - for the lack of a better word - smash names together.

Yann LeCun is called Yann Le Cun [0] in French, but "Le" and "Cun" are smashed together in English. Lafayette [2] is of course called La Fayette [3]. Du Pont becomes DuPont, and so on.

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_Le_Cun

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_...

[3] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier_de_La_Fayett...

parent dakdak 6 years ago

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