lolo wrote:Surprise ! Lolo is my nickname...
My avatar is "superdupont" a french cartoon character. It's a super hero parody with all the faults and clichés about french people...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdupont
Americans have superman, we have superdupont !
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Thanks for the explanations, Lolo!
"Dupont" is best known to me, and probably to most Americans, as the name of a huge chemical company.
But it had never occurred to me, until I read your post about your avatar, that the word "Dupont" is, in fact, TWO words: "Du pont". I even know that "pont" is French for "bridge" (the structure, not, at least I don't think, the card game). I only know this from Pont neuf, etcetera, in Paris. So "Du pont" means "The bridge", something which simply never even occurred to me!
And now, armed with that information, I finally see that the word "DUPONT" within the famous "Dupont" logo ("DUPONT" inside an oval) is actually "DU PONT", but the space between the two words is narrow enough As to go unnoticed by those who, like me, were/are blissfully ignorant of it being two words. (see attachment below).
From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont:
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, commonly referred to as DuPont, is an American chemical company that was founded in July 1802 as a gunpowder mill by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont. DuPont was the world's third largest chemical company based on market capitalization[citation needed] and ninth based on revenue in 2012.[4] Its stock price is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
So thanks again Lolo, for the tidbit by which my poor brain made the connection.
SuperDupont would be proud (of you, not me)!
ETA: Another connection I had not made until now: The French word "Pont" (Bridge) and the Spanish word "Puente" (Bridge) almost certainly have a common ancestor!
What an educational thread/topic!!