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> wait, get a fix?? is that a pun I just discovered after 20 years? You must be kidding ! Readymix just doesnt cut it. My favourites are dubbelosix, squareonth
by srean 3y ago
> wait, get a fix?? is that a pun I just discovered after 20 years?
You must be kidding ! Readymix just doesnt cut it.
My favourites are dubbelosix, squareonthehypothenus and dogmatix.
- andrepd 3y agoDogmatix is an especially brilliant one, since the original is Idéafix (stubborn, single-minded, literally "of fixed ideas"), and the translation not only manages to preserve that meaning but also add "Dog" to it :)
- srean 3y agoExactly! The translators did such a fantastic job over all. I would have imagined that kind of humor to be untranslatable.
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- poizan42 3y agoThe original name would work in English too though. In the Danish translation the dog is is just idéfix which works just as well in Danish.
- schoen 3y agoEnglish does have the loanword https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/id%C3%A9e_fixe#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/id%C3%A9e_fixe#English but I think this is often considered technical vocabulary (per Wiktionary, in psychology and music composition) that most native speakers would probably not recognize.
- poizan42 3y agoI meant that idea and fixed are both English words, so it should be possible to associate ideafix with "fixed idea" - a bit more obscure though than the original.
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y agoIdéfix, not Idéafix! "Idea" is "idée" in French. It comes from "idée fixte" which means fixed idea, like you say, or in other words, an obsession.
- andrepd 3y agoOops, you're right! I was mislead since in my native language, in which I read the books as a child, he is called Ideafix :)
- danielheath 3y agoNot to mention Lucretia, the young woman who married the wealthy old man (Lucre)
- srean 3y agoGood find ! had missed that one.
- jacquesm 3y agoHe even looks like Sean Connery!
- srean 3y agoThere's much much more. Hope you enjoy some of these below. https://www.everythingasterix.com/news-and-views-content/2015/3/4/the-24-best-cameos-in-asterix-part-1 https://www.everythingasterix.com/news-and-views-content/201... https://www.everythingasterix.com/news-and-views-content/2015/3/25/the-24-best-cameos-in-asterix https://www.everythingasterix.com/news-and-views-content/201... You will find Paul McCartney too. When I read them as a kid in India I missed many of these, not the Beatles or Dubbelosix. I have read every one of the 'originals' (Goscinny and Uderzo ones) so many times, but even now when I re-read them in my late 40s I discover something that I had missed before. Usually something happening in the background -- mark of stellar writing and drawing.
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y agoDubbleosix is "zerozerosix" in the original. Maps one-to-one, I'd say.