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Inlander:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 19 Dec 2007, 21:13 ---No, but Tintin is a French name. What he says is in english but that doesn't mean his name is suddenly english. It's spelled the same in both languages, it's not an english name, and it aught to be pronounced correctly.
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Yeah, it's just a double-standard that annoys me in English-speaking society (probably in other languages, too). If a Frenchman were to mispronounce my name nobody would castigate him, we'd all say "Oh, what a charming accent!" But I mispronounce a Frenchman's name and suddenly I'm committing heinous crimes against language!
Jimmy the Squid:
But 'Arry! Eet ees such a charming accent! 'Ow can you resist?
Inlander:
Well I have been baking a lot of baguettes recently . . .
Spinless:
That's it, from now on, it is pronounced 'Ah-Ree' in honour of the French.
When the Tintin tv show was on TV over here, it was pronounced 'Tin'. Only, you said it twice. So it came out 'Tin-Tin'.
IronOxide:
I just don't like calling the Minnou "Snowy", because it's a totally different name. But you have to Anglicize it at least a little bit. (Although I think it would be badass if they would do it in French)
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