Great stuff. I first encountered the Asterix books living with Americans in Turkey when I was twelve. I still have a bunch of them somewhere.
Posted by Songdog at March 20, 2003 04:59 PMI credit Astérix for what fluency I once had in French.
Clever of Uderzo to spell Hyapados with `H'. (As we all know, initial upsilon is always aspirated in classical Greek - but `h' is silent in French.)
Posted by Anton Sherwood at April 13, 2003 01:01 AM