MrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksM to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago3 July 1987sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1160arrow-down13
arrow-up1157arrow-down1image3 July 1987sh.itjust.worksMrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksM to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareDontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoI’m going to need help understanding this.
minus-squarethe dopamine fiend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·3 days agoCalvin is equating Paul Revere with Santa.
minus-squareancap shark@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoThe Brazilian translation I own replaced him with Thomas Jefferson. Kinda random but I found it funny
minus-squareQuetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoWhat’s the translation of the previous “antelope/ant eloping” pun? I can’t imagine that works in other languages.
minus-squareancap shark@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days ago“brutamonte” (rude or big strong person) and “bruta monte” (really big mount) It’s a very bad joke, but I don’t blame the translators. How would they ever translate this bit
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoHuh, I wonder why they did that?
minus-squareancap shark@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 days agoBecause almost nobody in Brazil would know Paul Revere
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoBut they would know Thomas Jefferson? If I were tasked to choose the most famous U.S. political figures, I might have chosen Washington or Lincoln…
minus-squareEarMaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoI’m not from Brazil but from Germany and out of all the U.S. founding fathers Washington, Franklin and Jefferson were the ones I had heard of. Lincoln also, but he is not one of them, is he?
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoNo, Lincoln wasn’t a founding father. He was just a famous president who came later.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days agoThe presents are coming! The presents are coming!
I’m going to need help understanding this.
Calvin is equating Paul Revere with Santa.
The Brazilian translation I own replaced him with Thomas Jefferson. Kinda random but I found it funny
What’s the translation of the previous “antelope/ant eloping” pun? I can’t imagine that works in other languages.
“brutamonte” (rude or big strong person) and “bruta monte” (really big mount)
It’s a very bad joke, but I don’t blame the translators. How would they ever translate this bit
Huh, I wonder why they did that?
Because almost nobody in Brazil would know Paul Revere
But they would know Thomas Jefferson? If I were tasked to choose the most famous U.S. political figures, I might have chosen Washington or Lincoln…
I’m not from Brazil but from Germany and out of all the U.S. founding fathers Washington, Franklin and Jefferson were the ones I had heard of. Lincoln also, but he is not one of them, is he?
No, Lincoln wasn’t a founding father. He was just a famous president who came later.
The presents are coming! The presents are coming!