jonne
There was a time where translators seemingly got free reign in translating whatever they wanted including titles and character names. A lot of them got weird variants like that: Schtroumpfs/Smurfs (definitely get why they did it for this one), Spirou/Robbedoes , Tintin/Kuifje, etc.
I agree that in many cases they went too far, but there’s examples where it made sense to translate a character name if they were a pun of some kind (Asterix has many examples of that happening).
As for Suske en Wiske, those names aren’t just very Flemish, they’re basically very specific to the region around Antwerp (I don’t even know what their non-diminutive names are supposed to be). I don’t love the translated names, but it does make sense to make them more ‘normal’ sounding for other regions.
You only need a few to funnel a bunch of money to an organisation like this, it’s not like AIPAC is super popular with American Jews either. I was using China as an example, but any country could basically do it. You could take India as another example, Modi definitely has his share of fans abroad.
The democrats should’ve had a real primary with actual debates. That would’ve exposed the Biden situation way earlier and would’ve given the eventual candidate a democratic mandate. Biden dropping out now isn’t ideal, but now is better than later, it was only going to get worse.
The ideal scenario would’ve been for Biden to keep his word about him being a transitional candidate that would step aside after one term.
Tweeted out the Wordle word at like 6 in the morning.
