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Dogmatix is an especially brilliant one, since the original is Idéafix (stubborn, single-minded, literally "of fixed ideas"), and the translation not only manag
by andrepd 3y ago
Dogmatix 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 :)