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How did the authors write Asterix Puns? (lemmy.ml)
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I grew up on Asterix comics in English. The main humour is around puns. The authors are French (or Belgian, not sure). So did they write puns in French and someone translated them and made sure the comic was still funny in English? Or did they write it in English?

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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I always assumed the translators were simply doing a heroic job. Getting puns and wordplay to work across languages is hard. I would not be surprised if some jokes had to be significantly changed for different languages or countries.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    There's a legendary blog post about this:
    https://auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/asterix-in-translation-the-genius-of-anthea-bell-and-derek-hockridge/

    Also a rare chance to plug my community, which has posted a fair share of Asterix and other BD goodies: https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels

    EDIT: As a matter of fact, I'll be posting the first three pages of Asterix' new Lusitania adventure in a few minutes... EDIT2: Done! :D

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There's a legendary German translater fir Disney stuff (which I was more into as a kid):

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_Fuchs

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