I have a serious problem with people who are not named Gustav. When I was in Grenoble, there was a Swede in my class named Gustav, who was very pale and blue-eyed with white-blond hair. When I met this year's French assistant at Albion, I kept wanting to call him Gustav as well, because in addition to his fair hair and blue eyes, his name is Gauthier. Gustav, Gauthier. Close enough. Now I have a student with a Scandinavian last name and pale hair and blue eyes, but who insists on being called Guillaume rather than Gustav. What is with...
Posted by srah on November 23, 2002 7:23 AM
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