I spent some of yesterday looking up the French vs English names of various Asterix characters because I lead a rich, full life. Can any Francophones tell me what's the pun in this name/what does this name sound like? "Ziguépus" asterix.com/personnages/ziguepus/
hmmm... fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_d... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zig_et_...
This is the definition of a full life. There was a blog called 'Asterix Latin Jokes Explained' which is worth seeking out too.
This sounds like a party to me! Off to find it
I cannot get my head round that she translated Asterix with such inspiration and humour and also did Sebald's Austerlitz. wtf.
Some people just got them chops
oh drat the site doesn't seem to be up any more. Why is the internet only forever when it's nudes??
Sure! Ziguépus is a pseudo-Latin riff on the classic French comic Zig et Puce, while also sounding like slang for a tiny, insignificant fellow ("zigue" = guy or dude; "puce" = flea), kind of like naming a character "Shrimpkins" or something. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zig_et_...
Thank you! I NEVER would've worked that out on my own, I was looking for french words that sounded like parts of the name but hadn't thought of characters! Cheers!
Reading Asterix (in English) as child meant that I met Cacofonix before I learned the word "Cacophony", so he will always be CAKo-FONix to me, rather than ca-COFonix.
There are so many jokes that only dropped for me later, on re-reading!