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peur_evol (peur_evol) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-03-28 00:36:00

Entry tags:

char: pogo, publisher: dell comics, theme: funny animals

Albert The Alligator

WARNING!
The following piece contains scenes which depict the usage of tobacco products.
If you are Joe Quesada, you might be offended.

from ANIMAL COMICS #30, December, 1947

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	foxhack 2009-03-28 01:34 am UTC (link)
	I have no fucking clue what they're all saying. What the fuck? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	midnightvoyager.livejournal.com 2009-03-30 09:36 am UTC (link)
	....I discounted it as French for some reason when I first glanced and skipped to the comments for translation. Looking back, I can see that it's a dialect. Alas, it killed any enjoyment I might have had, especially considering the voice in my head saying all of the dialog is now Ebony. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tsuki_the_geek 2009-03-28 01:39 am UTC (link)
	.............what? (Reply to this)

	strangething.livejournal.com 2009-03-28 02:24 am UTC (link)
	Dat dia-lek be powerful strong. It wins for the fingerbone of incredulity, though. (Reply to this)

dr_hermes
2009-03-28 03:04 am UTC (link)

Very cool stuff, thanks for posting this. It's not quite up to the level of his work a few years later, but ALBERT is still refreshing and a delight. One thing I always liked was the underlying dilemma of a world where almost every living critter is sentient. What do they eat, if not each other? The fish in particular seem to object to being on the menu.

I don't know how to make the dialect clearer if you're having trouble with it. Maybe sounding it out in your head, or reading it out loud might help. The way these varmints talk (and confuse themselves) is a big part of POGO's appeal to me, perhaps it's just a question of being familiar with Southern speech.

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	icon_uk 2009-03-28 04:34 am UTC (link)
	Maybe it's because I'm Scottish and so am somewhat used to heavy dialect, but I had no problem reading that whatsoever. Certainly a damn sight easier on the ears than bloody Gambit! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	midnightvoyager.livejournal.com 2009-03-30 09:37 am UTC (link)
	I'm from Alabama. I STILL discounted this as French or something on first glance. (Reply to this) (Parent)

aaron_bourque
2009-03-28 03:53 am UTC (link)

Hmm. Scans_daily is having trouble with the "accent" Walt Kelly used in his Pogo tales! I know! I'll provide a handy-dandy translation, seeing as how I'm having no trouble with it.

A-hem.

OWL: Shucks! The fish keep slipping off of my hook.
ALBERT: Owl, all you do is complain about your missed fishes, when I've failed to catch more fish than you'll ever know!
OWL: LIES!
ALBERT: Ha! I've won awards for the amount of lost fish I've lost! Once, there was a catfish 6' long!
OWL: I've almost caught fishes 7' long!
ALBERT: I don't believe it!
OWL: You callin' me a liar??? I'll whip you with my fishidy pole!
ALBERT: And I'll defend maself!
BUG: Yippe! Fit each other into the riggin'! Ma sakes, whut a passel of derring do--

Wait. Walt Kelly's Pogo is supposed to be enjoyed as it was originally presented, accent and all.

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	foxhack 2009-03-28 09:58 am UTC (link)
	Some of us have enough problems with "Normal" US English as it is. I no understand seenor. We du not speeka like that in Meheekou. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

dr_hermes
2009-03-28 02:29 pm UTC (link)

Aren't there regional dialects in Mexico, where someone from a big city would speak quite differently from a rural dweller a few hundred miles away? I imagine a comic showing the difference would make sense to a Mexican reader but most Americans would be lost.

Years ago, I saw a French comic that had subtitles at the bottom of each page. From what I gathered, the man burst in and said something to a woman using the familiar form of address, "Tu?" She replied "Not so fast, I don't know you that well." The translation had him calling her "honey," to which she objected the same way. I think the essential meaning came across.

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	zegim 2009-03-28 03:48 pm UTC (link)
	You are right. And just like with english dialects, even english speakers would be clueless about what is being said without being familiar with a particular dialect. Anyway, this was a little easier to figure than Scottish D: (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-03-29 02:09 am UTC (link)
	I certainly had no problem figuring it out - and while I am American, I'm about as far away from that dialect as you can possibly get. (Of course, I've read Pogo before...) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dr_hermes 2009-03-29 03:49 am UTC (link)
	Mentioning Scots dialect reminds me of John Buchan's thrillers from the WW I era-- THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS, GREENMANTLE, THE THREE HOSTAGES. Absolutely great, but when his characters got all Scottish, it was like reading one of Tolkien's notebooks. Whew. Sounding it out was a big help. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	meatwhichdreams 2009-03-29 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	DAMN STRAIGHT that's half the charm of it! You can't remove "de fingerbone of incredulity" without hurting yourself, you know. Although this early(?) Walt Kelly style is freaking me out, especially 'round the muzzles. Pogo looks so angry! (Reply to this) (Parent)