I grew up with all French comics and cartoons, and it’s so weird watching native englishers call like Tintin’s dog “Snowy” or call Tintin “Tintin” for that matter.
Take a look at the trailer for Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin (a delightful movie, even though I had a really hard time getting used to these characters speaking English) and listen to the way Tintin pronounces his own name in English:
Is a nasalization, which while is distinct from an alveolar fricative is difficult to describe to someone who isn’t French, Polish, etc - I was trying!
I could not find it on the wikipedia but I did find other options to listen to it. It does not sound like whatever you wrote earlier. The i is nowhere to be found but the n is really there, just as you said unclear.
In Danish the dog’s called “Terry” (probably because the translator considered that a cute name for a terrier) and has his profession (🤔) listed as “Astronaut, seaman” on Danish Wikipedia 😄
I grew up with all French comics and cartoons, and it’s so weird watching native englishers call like Tintin’s dog “Snowy” or call Tintin “Tintin” for that matter.
This you?
Wrong generation but yes 😭
I’ll do you one better, in German it’s “Tim” and “Struppi” (akin to “struppig”: ragged or unkempt).
They really just looked at ”Tintin" and decided that “Tim” is basically the same
Is Tintin not called Tintin??? I am a bit confused about the latter
/tɛ̃tɛ̃/
Take a look at the trailer for Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin (a delightful movie, even though I had a really hard time getting used to these characters speaking English) and listen to the way Tintin pronounces his own name in English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiPUce42iww
I can only assume that the way he says it in the movie is the normal way it’s said in English and indeed, that sounds weird.
Tinntinn vs Ti~ti~
So long i or what? I don’t really ubderstand your answer
In French it’d be closed to Tonton / Tantan but almost don’t pronounce the n’s.
We don’t pronounce the n at all. “in” is its own sound, independent of “i” or “n”.
/tɛ̃tɛ̃/
Is a nasalization, which while is distinct from an alveolar fricative is difficult to describe to someone who isn’t French, Polish, etc - I was trying!
It sounds kind of like we pronounce sntntn. French spelling is odd
I just guess it’s about French pronunciation. The tin is pronounced with a nasal long open vowel instead of a clear n.
PS you can go to french Wikipedia entry for Tintin and listen to it.
I could not find it on the wikipedia but I did find other options to listen to it. It does not sound like whatever you wrote earlier. The i is nowhere to be found but the n is really there, just as you said unclear.
In Danish the dog’s called “Terry” (probably because the translator considered that a cute name for a terrier) and has his profession (🤔) listed as “Astronaut, seaman” on Danish Wikipedia 😄
Huh… I’ve always thought tintin a the name of a dog but I guess that’s rin tin tin and that those are two competly unrelated things. TIL
Are they a female dog in the French version? Or just have a feminine name?
Edit: I asked my Belgian friend, he’s male
Terry is a gender neutral name
It’s Milou in French, no?
I might be in the wrong thread
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