DWIGHT:
>Puns are a translator's nightmare. I've recently seen one
>ingenious way of dodging the whole problem. It was a Swedish
>album collecting Hagar the Horrible strips. Most of the dailies
>are duly translated into Swedish, but the ones whose gags depend
>on some English pun or American cultural reference (such as a
>a Roman pillar with chatty graffiti on it -- a "gossip column"
>-- and a gag somehow bringing Ethel Merman into connection with
>mermaids) are left untranslated and in English, with a footnote
>explaining what the point is. I suppose you can only get away
>with that in a country where 98.6% of the population speaks
>better English than most Americans...
Speaking of Hagar, there was a strip earlier this year where Hagar says
"Guess what I brought back from my trip to Turkey!" and the next panel shows
him leading a live turkey by the leash. Has this come up?
OTOH, there is one early episode of Calvin & Hobbes where the dialog is like
this:
Calvin: Want to go spelunking with me?
Hobbes: Spelunking? There aren't any caves around here.
Calvin: You don't need a cave. All you need is a rock.
So they throw rocks into the water, and they make the sound "Spelunk!" In a
Mexican collection C&H strips, however, "spelunking" is translated into the
Spanish word for that--"espolear," whereas the sound in the last panel is
left alone.
Author
Topic: 199609
(378 messages)
Markoff
Digest V96 #207--Translated puns
Message 301 -
1996-09-24 at 17:21:43
Harry Fluks
Database
Message 302 -
1996-09-24 at 18:41:32
Jonathan Markoff asked me about a list of rules for appearing characters
in the database. That list is in the file "format.legend". Since the "rules" are
debatable, I'll print them here, too:
For sub-universes like "DuckTales", no appearing character is
listed, except when very strange (e.g. Scamp appearing in a DuckTales
story). These sub-universes include the Bucky Bug-world, Chip 'n'
Dale rescue Rangers, Disney Babies, DuckTales, Jungle Book,
Little Hiawatha, Mickey and the Sleuth, Pinocchio, Peter Pan,
Scamp, Winnie the Pooh, the Wuzzles.
Here's a list of the others:
If the hero is: Then we don't list appearances of:
--------------- ----------------------------------
BAM (Bambi) Thumper
BO (Bongo) Lumpjaw
BR (Brer Rabbit) Brer Bear, Brer Fox
BW (Big Bad Wolf) Little Bad Wolf, Three Little Pigs, Brer Bear
DA (Daisy Duck) DD, HDL
DD (Donald Duck) HDL
DUM (Dumbo) Timothy, the ravens
FE (Fethry Duck) DD
GD (Grandma Duck) Gus Goose, Gus & Jaq
GO (Goofy) MM
GY (Gyro Gearloose) GY's Helper
LW (Li'l Bad Wolf) Big Bad Wolf, Three Little Pigs, Brer Bear
MD (Moby Duck) Dim-Witty
MM (Mickey Mouse) Goofy (but we DO list him in newspaper stories)
TLP (3 Little Pigs) Big Bad Wolf, Little Bad Wolf, Brer Bear
US (Uncle Scrooge) DD, HDL
Now go ahead and fire your comments!
--Harry.
in the database. That list is in the file "format.legend". Since the "rules" are
debatable, I'll print them here, too:
For sub-universes like "DuckTales", no appearing character is
listed, except when very strange (e.g. Scamp appearing in a DuckTales
story). These sub-universes include the Bucky Bug-world, Chip 'n'
Dale rescue Rangers, Disney Babies, DuckTales, Jungle Book,
Little Hiawatha, Mickey and the Sleuth, Pinocchio, Peter Pan,
Scamp, Winnie the Pooh, the Wuzzles.
Here's a list of the others:
If the hero is: Then we don't list appearances of:
--------------- ----------------------------------
BAM (Bambi) Thumper
BO (Bongo) Lumpjaw
BR (Brer Rabbit) Brer Bear, Brer Fox
BW (Big Bad Wolf) Little Bad Wolf, Three Little Pigs, Brer Bear
DA (Daisy Duck) DD, HDL
DD (Donald Duck) HDL
DUM (Dumbo) Timothy, the ravens
FE (Fethry Duck) DD
GD (Grandma Duck) Gus Goose, Gus & Jaq
GO (Goofy) MM
GY (Gyro Gearloose) GY's Helper
LW (Li'l Bad Wolf) Big Bad Wolf, Three Little Pigs, Brer Bear
MD (Moby Duck) Dim-Witty
MM (Mickey Mouse) Goofy (but we DO list him in newspaper stories)
TLP (3 Little Pigs) Big Bad Wolf, Little Bad Wolf, Brer Bear
US (Uncle Scrooge) DD, HDL
Now go ahead and fire your comments!
--Harry.
Harry Fluks
Super...
Message 303 -
1996-09-24 at 18:49:20
Jonathan:
> As to the Super Goof spinoffs, I'm not sure it's possible to count how many
> other characters have accidentally swallowed his goobers and become "super,"
> at least momentarily.
There was even one Dutch story with Goofy and Ellsworth ("Leo de Beo")
where Ellsworth becomes a superhero! (Awful!)
--Harry.
> As to the Super Goof spinoffs, I'm not sure it's possible to count how many
> other characters have accidentally swallowed his goobers and become "super,"
> at least momentarily.
There was even one Dutch story with Goofy and Ellsworth ("Leo de Beo")
where Ellsworth becomes a superhero! (Awful!)
--Harry.
Harald Havas
Disney comics Digest V96 #207
Message 304 -
1996-09-24 at 18:56:51
Just out in Germany/Austria:
"That's Donald"-sticker-Album by Panini. To all non-Europeans on this
list: collecting sticker(-album)s ist the European equivalent of
US-Trading-Cards. The Stickers even have about the same size as TCs
but have print only on one page. Put into the (for the most part very
luxurious albums) you get a complete picture-book for a certain theme
(film, cartoon-character, animals..) Panini is the biggest (and for
the most part best) provider of these things. Disney-conmtents are
known to be collector-items, when full (most of the time over 200
stickers). I normally collect the Disney-movies.
The new one (Ca c'est Donald, Io Paperino, Asi es Donald, So o
Donald - in other editions) is a careful look on Duckburgh and the
life of Donald with many "canon" references. In the middle there are
20 "Donalds" from around the world with their foreign names. Still I
dont really care for the artwork - the characters are good, but
colored in a children-picture-book soft-tone air-brush way, which I
sincerely dislike. Anybody collecting this?
Harald
PS: Yesterday I _dreamt_ about Phooey (Truck) - boy, what reading this
list can do to some people...
"Gustav Gans, ja der kann's! Doch unser Schwein ist auch nicht
klein!" Tick, Trick und Track
--- (Harald Havas) (Email removed)
"That's Donald"-sticker-Album by Panini. To all non-Europeans on this
list: collecting sticker(-album)s ist the European equivalent of
US-Trading-Cards. The Stickers even have about the same size as TCs
but have print only on one page. Put into the (for the most part very
luxurious albums) you get a complete picture-book for a certain theme
(film, cartoon-character, animals..) Panini is the biggest (and for
the most part best) provider of these things. Disney-conmtents are
known to be collector-items, when full (most of the time over 200
stickers). I normally collect the Disney-movies.
The new one (Ca c'est Donald, Io Paperino, Asi es Donald, So o
Donald - in other editions) is a careful look on Duckburgh and the
life of Donald with many "canon" references. In the middle there are
20 "Donalds" from around the world with their foreign names. Still I
dont really care for the artwork - the characters are good, but
colored in a children-picture-book soft-tone air-brush way, which I
sincerely dislike. Anybody collecting this?
Harald
PS: Yesterday I _dreamt_ about Phooey (Truck) - boy, what reading this
list can do to some people...
"Gustav Gans, ja der kann's! Doch unser Schwein ist auch nicht
klein!" Tick, Trick und Track
--- (Harald Havas) (Email removed)
Harry Fluks
Glomgold etc.
Message 305 -
1996-09-24 at 19:01:58
Don:
> But isn't it
> great how it worked out that we in America can have $crooge (with the "$")
> as his first name!? If his name had been Flintheart, that would only have
> made a nice logo in France or Switzerland. And "Glomgold McDuck" would only
> have looked good on Dutch comic covers.
The symbol for the Dutch currency is a stylised (?) "f". The name of the currency
is Guilder (Dutch: gulden), but the symbol is from the word "florin" (= "from
Florence"). Just like the L ("libra") is the symbol for pound.
(I forgot where the $ stands for...)
I'm glad the Dutch have a symbol to replace the $ in the Scrooge comics (on the
money bin, for instance). Germans just use a plain "T" ("Taler"), or "DD" ("Dagobert
Duck"). In "The Magic Hourglass", the Germans even REMOVED all $-references!
So in fact, Flintheart would be fit for Holland, and Glomgold wouldn't. But neither
names are Dutch and they would have been translated by something else, anyway.
> I also find some letters where I thanked Roep for sending me copies of all
> the Dutch comics that reprinted my stories. Hm!
So where did you hide those copies? 8-)
Thanks for your comments! I managed to read all of them without falling asleep!
--Harry.
> But isn't it
> great how it worked out that we in America can have $crooge (with the "$")
> as his first name!? If his name had been Flintheart, that would only have
> made a nice logo in France or Switzerland. And "Glomgold McDuck" would only
> have looked good on Dutch comic covers.
The symbol for the Dutch currency is a stylised (?) "f". The name of the currency
is Guilder (Dutch: gulden), but the symbol is from the word "florin" (= "from
Florence"). Just like the L ("libra") is the symbol for pound.
(I forgot where the $ stands for...)
I'm glad the Dutch have a symbol to replace the $ in the Scrooge comics (on the
money bin, for instance). Germans just use a plain "T" ("Taler"), or "DD" ("Dagobert
Duck"). In "The Magic Hourglass", the Germans even REMOVED all $-references!
So in fact, Flintheart would be fit for Holland, and Glomgold wouldn't. But neither
names are Dutch and they would have been translated by something else, anyway.
> I also find some letters where I thanked Roep for sending me copies of all
> the Dutch comics that reprinted my stories. Hm!
So where did you hide those copies? 8-)
Thanks for your comments! I managed to read all of them without falling asleep!
--Harry.
Deckerd
Digest V96 #207--Translated puns
Message 306 -
1996-09-24 at 20:18:14
On Sep 24, 10:21am, markoff wrote:
> Subject: Re: Digest V96 #207--Translated puns
> Speaking of Hagar, there was a strip earlier this year where Hagar
says
> "Guess what I brought back from my trip to Turkey!" and the next
panel shows
> him leading a live turkey by the leash. Has this come up?
>
I haven't seen that one, I have to admit. The one I have to
wonder about is a Gary Larson Far Side cartoon (fresh in my
mind because it recently came up on the Far Side desk
calendar). I've seen Larson's cartoons reprinted overseas,
as in Sweden, which I find amazing because so many are
based on American puns, colloquialisms, and cultural
references. Like the one I'm thinking of, which had a
parliament of horses thrown into consternation because for
the first time anybody could remember, someone had voted
"aye." (For the benefit of our foreign friends: the sound
a horse makes is conventionalized as "neigh," pronounced
"nay." Coincidentally, the word "nay" is an archaic form
of the word "no," but survives in a few contexts, such as
in formal parliamentary procedure. The joke is that a horse
could _only_ vote "nay" because that's all it can say.) I
don't envy the translator in a foreign clime trying to
convert _that_ cartoon into something locally funny...
Incidentally, to get this back to Disney stuf'...I just
got a copy of a Danish comic (a supplement to the Anders
And of a few weeks back) that has a cover that's a blatantly
obvious illustration of the Americanism "bats in the belfry,"
but the title/caption was something else because (I assume)
the expression doesn't exist in Danish. (I don't have the
comic in front of me and I'm doing this from memory, so I
don't want to make too many assumptions and sweeping
statements.)
--Dwight Decker
> Subject: Re: Digest V96 #207--Translated puns
> Speaking of Hagar, there was a strip earlier this year where Hagar
says
> "Guess what I brought back from my trip to Turkey!" and the next
panel shows
> him leading a live turkey by the leash. Has this come up?
>
I haven't seen that one, I have to admit. The one I have to
wonder about is a Gary Larson Far Side cartoon (fresh in my
mind because it recently came up on the Far Side desk
calendar). I've seen Larson's cartoons reprinted overseas,
as in Sweden, which I find amazing because so many are
based on American puns, colloquialisms, and cultural
references. Like the one I'm thinking of, which had a
parliament of horses thrown into consternation because for
the first time anybody could remember, someone had voted
"aye." (For the benefit of our foreign friends: the sound
a horse makes is conventionalized as "neigh," pronounced
"nay." Coincidentally, the word "nay" is an archaic form
of the word "no," but survives in a few contexts, such as
in formal parliamentary procedure. The joke is that a horse
could _only_ vote "nay" because that's all it can say.) I
don't envy the translator in a foreign clime trying to
convert _that_ cartoon into something locally funny...
Incidentally, to get this back to Disney stuf'...I just
got a copy of a Danish comic (a supplement to the Anders
And of a few weeks back) that has a cover that's a blatantly
obvious illustration of the Americanism "bats in the belfry,"
but the title/caption was something else because (I assume)
the expression doesn't exist in Danish. (I don't have the
comic in front of me and I'm doing this from memory, so I
don't want to make too many assumptions and sweeping
statements.)
--Dwight Decker
Deckerd
Disney comics Digest V96 #207
Message 307 -
1996-09-24 at 20:39:57
On Sep 24, 8:53am, Don Rosa wrote:
> Subject: Re: Disney comics Digest V96 #207
> But isn't it
> great how it worked out that we in America can have $crooge (with the
"$")
> as his first name!? If his name had been Flintheart, that would only
have
> made a nice logo in France or Switzerland. And "Glomgold McDuck"
would only
> have looked good on Dutch comic covers.
Except the Dutch don't use a "G" for Guilder as their money
symbol. They use a sort of script "f" (for "florin," a Dutch
monetary unit of long ago).
>
> DWIGHT / GARY:
> Oh, but what I was gonna tell you is that he found a copy of the
final
> ballot for the Comic Book Fan Awards (the only American comics awards
in
> those days) for 1974 or thereabouts. And three of the half-dozen
nominations
> for "Favorite Fan Writer" were Dwight Decker, Gary Brown and Don
Rosa. Are we old,
> or what?
It shows that back then it was still possible for some guys just out of
college to be big fish (or at least well known fish) in a small pond.
Fandom got so big in the years after that, with so much turnover and
so many new fans coming in, while I scaled back my hobby activity in
order to deal with the problems of making a living, that I kind of
became a small fish in a very large ocean. Unless I started writing a
regular column for CBG, I could never place in such a contest today --
I'm too unknown and obscure now as far as mainstream comics fandom is
concerned.
--Dwight
> Subject: Re: Disney comics Digest V96 #207
> But isn't it
> great how it worked out that we in America can have $crooge (with the
"$")
> as his first name!? If his name had been Flintheart, that would only
have
> made a nice logo in France or Switzerland. And "Glomgold McDuck"
would only
> have looked good on Dutch comic covers.
Except the Dutch don't use a "G" for Guilder as their money
symbol. They use a sort of script "f" (for "florin," a Dutch
monetary unit of long ago).
>
> DWIGHT / GARY:
> Oh, but what I was gonna tell you is that he found a copy of the
final
> ballot for the Comic Book Fan Awards (the only American comics awards
in
> those days) for 1974 or thereabouts. And three of the half-dozen
nominations
> for "Favorite Fan Writer" were Dwight Decker, Gary Brown and Don
Rosa. Are we old,
> or what?
It shows that back then it was still possible for some guys just out of
college to be big fish (or at least well known fish) in a small pond.
Fandom got so big in the years after that, with so much turnover and
so many new fans coming in, while I scaled back my hobby activity in
order to deal with the problems of making a living, that I kind of
became a small fish in a very large ocean. Unless I started writing a
regular column for CBG, I could never place in such a contest today --
I'm too unknown and obscure now as far as mainstream comics fandom is
concerned.
--Dwight
Pekka Frobozz
Disney comics Digest V96 #204
Message 308 -
1996-09-24 at 20:46:18
DON ROSA:
>Thanks for the reply about Ludwig Von Drake. But have you and your wife been
>lurking here all these months? I had been missing you and thought you might
>have dropped out. (Understandable response #1)
>
Uh oh, I just blew our cover. Yup, we have been lurking here and continue
to do so save occasional messages to the list. Since I am not lurking at
the moment...
ALL (especially GARY LEACH):
What do you know about "The Duck Man" -video that is about to be published
in November? I have already ordered many copies of it to us and our
friends so I will eventually learn it by myself, but I would appreciate any
information.
//Pekka Timonen ((Email removed))
>Thanks for the reply about Ludwig Von Drake. But have you and your wife been
>lurking here all these months? I had been missing you and thought you might
>have dropped out. (Understandable response #1)
>
Uh oh, I just blew our cover. Yup, we have been lurking here and continue
to do so save occasional messages to the list. Since I am not lurking at
the moment...
ALL (especially GARY LEACH):
What do you know about "The Duck Man" -video that is about to be published
in November? I have already ordered many copies of it to us and our
friends so I will eventually learn it by myself, but I would appreciate any
information.
//Pekka Timonen ((Email removed))
Harry Fluks
AW: Dutch DD Weekly subscription in USA
Message 309 -
1996-09-24 at 21:38:33
Only a few minor comments from a Dutchman about Dwight's excellent
translation.
>> - De abonnementsprijs bedraagt per jaar f 195,-per SAL.
> The subscription price amounts to 195 guilders per year by SAL
> (is this an air mail postage rate?)
I don't know. (Now *that's* a comment that helps a lot! 8-)
>> - Er gelden geen welkomstpremies of kortingen.
> No introductory offers or discounts apply (I think).
Correct.
>> - De verzenduur van het tijdschrift is maximaal 2 weken.
> The shipping time of the magazine is at most 2 weeks. (huh? Do
> they mean it usually takes two weeks to arrive?)
I think so, yes. (I assume Jonathan meant verzendDuur.)
>> Graag met vermelding van: nieuw abonnement Donald Duck
> Please specify (on the form) that this is a new subscription to Donald Duck
I think it's safer to put the literal text "nieuw abonnement Donald Duck"...
--Harry.
translation.
>> - De abonnementsprijs bedraagt per jaar f 195,-per SAL.
> The subscription price amounts to 195 guilders per year by SAL
> (is this an air mail postage rate?)
I don't know. (Now *that's* a comment that helps a lot! 8-)
>> - Er gelden geen welkomstpremies of kortingen.
> No introductory offers or discounts apply (I think).
Correct.
>> - De verzenduur van het tijdschrift is maximaal 2 weken.
> The shipping time of the magazine is at most 2 weeks. (huh? Do
> they mean it usually takes two weeks to arrive?)
I think so, yes. (I assume Jonathan meant verzendDuur.)
>> Graag met vermelding van: nieuw abonnement Donald Duck
> Please specify (on the form) that this is a new subscription to Donald Duck
I think it's safer to put the literal text "nieuw abonnement Donald Duck"...
--Harry.
Wilmer Rivers
Dollar sign's origin
Message 310 -
1996-09-24 at 22:36:13
Harry writes:
The symbol for the Dutch currency is a stylised (?) "f". The name of the currency
is Guilder (Dutch: gulden), but the symbol is from the word "florin" (= "from
Florence"). Just like the L ("libra") is the symbol for pound.
(I forgot where the $ stands for...)
Here's the story as I've always heard it (no guarantees that it's true,
though). The dollar sign (the letter "S" with a vertical line through
it) used to be written with 2 vertical lines, not one. That original
symbol came about by overwriting the letters "U" and "S", for "United
States".
How to relate this to Disney comics? Well, the soldiers who received
supplies with the overwritten "U" and "S" used to joke that their
pay was coming from their "Uncle Sam", and a national symbol was
thereby created. Thus it is entirely appropriate that "U$" be
used as an abbreviation for "Uncle $crooge"!
Incidentally, when I type the ASCII character for a dollar sign on
my good old American (i.e., made in Japan) computer keyboard here
in the USA, does it in fact cause a real dollar sign to be printed
on your computer screens over there in Europe, or does the symbol
for your local currency show up instead?
Wilmer Rivers
The symbol for the Dutch currency is a stylised (?) "f". The name of the currency
is Guilder (Dutch: gulden), but the symbol is from the word "florin" (= "from
Florence"). Just like the L ("libra") is the symbol for pound.
(I forgot where the $ stands for...)
Here's the story as I've always heard it (no guarantees that it's true,
though). The dollar sign (the letter "S" with a vertical line through
it) used to be written with 2 vertical lines, not one. That original
symbol came about by overwriting the letters "U" and "S", for "United
States".
How to relate this to Disney comics? Well, the soldiers who received
supplies with the overwritten "U" and "S" used to joke that their
pay was coming from their "Uncle Sam", and a national symbol was
thereby created. Thus it is entirely appropriate that "U$" be
used as an abbreviation for "Uncle $crooge"!
Incidentally, when I type the ASCII character for a dollar sign on
my good old American (i.e., made in Japan) computer keyboard here
in the USA, does it in fact cause a real dollar sign to be printed
on your computer screens over there in Europe, or does the symbol
for your local currency show up instead?
Wilmer Rivers
Markoff
Rosa and landmarks
Message 311 -
1996-09-24 at 23:28:23
DON:
Out of curiosity, what is all this landmark research for? A story set in
Duckburg on Independence Day? :-)
Out of curiosity, what is all this landmark research for? A story set in
Duckburg on Independence Day? :-)
Don Rosa
Calling Australia
Message 312 -
1996-09-24 at 23:56:20
By the way, I'd like to contact the Duckfan in Australia, whom I believe is
a List-member, who is "mirroring" Dan Shane's "$crooge McDuck Page" there in
his continent. Could he send me a message?
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #208
******************************************
a List-member, who is "mirroring" Dan Shane's "$crooge McDuck Page" there in
his continent. Could he send me a message?
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #208
******************************************
Deckerd
AW: Dutch DD Weekly subscription in USA
Message 313 -
1996-09-25 at 00:08:22
On Sep 24, 8:38pm, Harry Fluks wrote:
> Subject: AW: Dutch DD Weekly subscription in USA
> Only a few minor comments from a Dutchman about Dwight's excellent
> translation.
> >> Graag met vermelding van: nieuw abonnement Donald Duck
> > Please specify (on the form) that this is a new subscription to
Donald Duck
>
> I think it's safer to put the literal text "nieuw abonnement Donald
Duck"...
>
Well, as I mentioned in my translation, Jonathan should ask
his bank if he can even do that from the US. The information
about the publisher's bank and account number was for the
purpose of making a direct deposit to that account. You can
do that in Europe, where it's commonly done for mail ordering
and making donations to causes and funds. In the US, we rely
on checks and money orders, and more commonly now, credit cards,
when we send away for things or pay bills, and that European
direct deposit system is pretty much unknown.
--Dwight Decker
> Subject: AW: Dutch DD Weekly subscription in USA
> Only a few minor comments from a Dutchman about Dwight's excellent
> translation.
> >> Graag met vermelding van: nieuw abonnement Donald Duck
> > Please specify (on the form) that this is a new subscription to
Donald Duck
>
> I think it's safer to put the literal text "nieuw abonnement Donald
Duck"...
>
Well, as I mentioned in my translation, Jonathan should ask
his bank if he can even do that from the US. The information
about the publisher's bank and account number was for the
purpose of making a direct deposit to that account. You can
do that in Europe, where it's commonly done for mail ordering
and making donations to causes and funds. In the US, we rely
on checks and money orders, and more commonly now, credit cards,
when we send away for things or pay bills, and that European
direct deposit system is pretty much unknown.
--Dwight Decker
Markoff
Oscar Wilde
Message 314 -
1996-09-25 at 01:11:26
On the Disney comics creators pages, one of the names is Oscar Wilde. Huh?
(I doubt it could be that Oscar Wilde, since he died a year and five days
before Walt Disney was born.)
PER:
On the "whatsnew" file, the word creators is supplanted by "characters."
(I doubt it could be that Oscar Wilde, since he died a year and five days
before Walt Disney was born.)
PER:
On the "whatsnew" file, the word creators is supplanted by "characters."
Christer Hanssen
"bats in the belfry,"
Message 315 -
1996-09-25 at 01:15:41
DWIGHT:
>got a copy of a Danish comic (a supplement to the Anders
>And of a few weeks back) that has a cover that's a blatantly
>obvious illustration of the Americanism "bats in the belfry,"
>but the title/caption was something else because (I assume)
>the expression doesn't exist in Danish. (I don't have the
>comic in front of me and I'm doing this from memory, so I
>don't want to make too many assumptions and sweeping
>statements.)
I guess your right, because I don't recon the expression. Yhe norwegian
title says something like: "Fluttering danger". This is the cover of the Van
Horn extra, with only stories of Van Horn, right?
-christer
>got a copy of a Danish comic (a supplement to the Anders
>And of a few weeks back) that has a cover that's a blatantly
>obvious illustration of the Americanism "bats in the belfry,"
>but the title/caption was something else because (I assume)
>the expression doesn't exist in Danish. (I don't have the
>comic in front of me and I'm doing this from memory, so I
>don't want to make too many assumptions and sweeping
>statements.)
I guess your right, because I don't recon the expression. Yhe norwegian
title says something like: "Fluttering danger". This is the cover of the Van
Horn extra, with only stories of Van Horn, right?
-christer