Doonesbury
May. 4th, 2003 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvarToday's Doonesbury is mostly in French. Since I'm a linguist engaged to a French major, I'll give it my best shot. The official site also provides their translation. Hmm... looks like I didn't do badly at all. I did use Babelfish for "Avec vous autres, la loyauté ne va dans qu'un sens", but the rest was off the top of my head. Not bad for a guy who's never taken French.
Zonker: What's that smell?
Mark: [pointing at a basket of "freedom fries"] There!
Zonker: Holy moly!
Mark: Hey, France-bashers! While you were renaming fries and boycotting brie, ever stop to consider the feelings of patriotic Franco-Americans? [next panel] What's that? You can't even think of one? Check out the signature on this strip, pal!
Zonker: Or are you so provincial you can't even recognize a French name?
[Ben's note: Doonesbury is by Garry Trudeau.]
Mark: Lemme ask you something: Why do you think we freed France in 1945?
Zonker: Heads up! We freed France because it ought to be free -- free of foreign domination! Got it?
Mark: Y'all's sense of loyalty is one-sided. After 9/11, French headlines said "Today we are all American!" If the terrorists had destroyed the Eiffel Tower, would you have said, "Today we are all French"? [next panel] Hell no! And do you know why?
Zonker: Why, Mark?
Mark: Because you're jingoistic, self-regarding CONQUER-MONKEYS!
Zonker: Oops! Pardon our French!
Zonker: What's that smell?
Mark: [pointing at a basket of "freedom fries"] There!
Zonker: Holy moly!
Mark: Hey, France-bashers! While you were renaming fries and boycotting brie, ever stop to consider the feelings of patriotic Franco-Americans? [next panel] What's that? You can't even think of one? Check out the signature on this strip, pal!
Zonker: Or are you so provincial you can't even recognize a French name?
[Ben's note: Doonesbury is by Garry Trudeau.]
Mark: Lemme ask you something: Why do you think we freed France in 1945?
Zonker: Heads up! We freed France because it ought to be free -- free of foreign domination! Got it?
Mark: Y'all's sense of loyalty is one-sided. After 9/11, French headlines said "Today we are all American!" If the terrorists had destroyed the Eiffel Tower, would you have said, "Today we are all French"? [next panel] Hell no! And do you know why?
Zonker: Why, Mark?
Mark: Because you're jingoistic, self-regarding CONQUER-MONKEYS!
Zonker: Oops! Pardon our French!
