May 04, 2003

M. TRUDEAU EST EN ROGNE.

Today's Doonesbury is a brilliant example of language as politics. I found it at Pedantry, but his permalinks are bloggered, so you can either go there and look for the top entry on Sunday, May 04 or visit the Doonesbury link and go to the same date. (If your French isn't up to snuff, try here.)

Posted by languagehat at May 4, 2003 08:23 PM
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My wife has pointed out that LH is less reader-friendly than Doonesbury. So: in case your French is not up to snuff, my entry title means "Mr. Trudeau is pissed off."

Posted by: language hat at May 5, 2003 08:13 AM

Wow -- I surprised myself by understanding the entire strip in French. (Past experience: 2 years high school French, a year of not-really-Latin in University -- a linguistics class taught by William Diver, where the case study language was Latin -- and mostly self-taught vocabulary of Latin roots.)

Posted by: Jeremy Osner at May 5, 2003 09:14 AM

Having weekended mightily, I had to dig back to the strip in question (which is here:
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.cfm?uc_full_date=20030504&uc_comic=db&uc_daction=X
)

Worth it, mind.

Posted by: des at May 6, 2003 05:02 AM

Thanks, des -- I changed the Doonesbury link to the one you provided. Glad you enjoyed your weekend!

Posted by: language hat at May 6, 2003 10:45 AM

And here's a more permanent link for the translation.

Posted by: Songdog at May 15, 2003 09:44 AM

Merci, Chien Chanteur!

Posted by: language hat at May 15, 2003 10:01 AM