Asterix

Albert Uderzo has died.

I read ALL the Asterix comics in two languages!

@fmf said
Albert Uderzo has died.

I read ALL the Asterix comics in two languages!

I only read them in English, but loved them as a kid.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I only read them in English, but loved them as a kid.

Alas, Ghost of a Duke, simply loving them is not enough. It's about the number of languages. I also read SOME of them in French and SOME in Latin.

@FMF
the story must be enhanced by reading it in several languages
i'm inspired to learn another language

I even sat NEXT to a friend once as he read one of the comics in SPANISH.

Smell the glove Ghost of a Duke.

@rookie54 said
@FMF
the story must be enhanced by reading it in several languages
i'm inspired to learn another language

When I moved to Indonesia, I threw myself into learning the language with considerable gusto.

Two of the things I did were reading the Bible, OT and NT, cover to cover, and buying all the Asterix comics which ~ interestingly enough ~ were shorn of a fair bit of the humour by [I suspect] the translators not actually getting all the references and the irony and the wordplay etc.

Still, it was excellent for delivering dialogue in the most concise and slangy/natural/real way - which is closer to the street-level/on the bus language than the stuff you absorb when learning the language in a grammatically conservative way.

@fmf said
I even sat NEXT to a friend once as he read one of the comics in SPANISH.

Smell the glove Ghost of a Duke.

I'm going to use my time in isolation to learn to read them in 23 languages, including Welsh.

The game is afoot.

@fmf said

I read ALL the Asterix comics in two languages!

I'd get the same thrill when Asterix drank the magic potion as I did when Popeye ate his spinach.

I misread the title, thinking "*", but on further reading I noted I had erred. I too enjoyed the comics and in two languages both of which are "official languages" here in Canada. Great fun those comics.

@rookie54 said
@FMF
the story must be enhanced by reading it in several languages
i'm inspired to learn another language

Read the german ones I always thought them to be funnier than the French ones.

I know that I read some in English, but I have no real recollection.