Meme!

[ratherastory]

Nicked from bellatemple and roque_clasique.

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who have influenced you and will always stick with you. List the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes, and they don't have to be listed in order of relevance to you.

Like bellatemple and roque_clasique, I include musicians.

1- Paul Verlaine

2- Charles Dickens

3- Jack London

4- Bob Dylan

5- Émile Nelligan

6- Victor Hugo

7- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

8- The Beatles

9- Emily Dickinson

10- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

11- Hergé

12- Guy de Maupassant

13- Edgar Allan Poe

14- Bram Stoker

15- Bernard Cornwell


Okay, there are, like, a bazillion others I could name. *sigh* 15 seems awfully limiting.

Comments

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

"Thundering typhoons" is more literal and so has stuck, thank god, being "sejuta topan badai", meaning "a thousand thunderstorms". I was horrified to realize I couldn't remember the rest, so I ran off to Wikipedia to find out.

DUDE IT HAS A WHOLE LIST COMPILED. A selection:

Babi Ompong! = gap-toothed pig
Babon bulukan! = mangy baboon
Badut budukan! = ummm, uncouth clown?
Bakso busuk! = rotten meatballs (the bakso is a kind of Indonesian meatball)
Belalang liar! = wild grasshopper
Cacing kering! = dry worm
Dasar bandit! = what a thief!
Dendam kesumat! vendetta
Ikan asin! = salted fish
Jangkrik! = cricket
Jin peot! = wrinkly djinn
Kanibal! = cannibal
Kambing guling! = goat on a spit (also a delicious dish!)
Kepiting goreng! = fried crab
Kodok kesasar! = lost frog
Kutu busuk! = rotten fleas
Racun tikus! = rat poison
Tikus bau! = smelly rat
Udang busuk! = rotten shrimp
Kepiting busuk! = rotten crab



:DDDDDDDDD meeeemoriiiiies

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Wow. Those English translations don't even come close to what I remember from the original French. Huh.

It would be awesome if someone had compiled all the insults in all the languages for a compare/contrast...

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

They have probably changed! I'm sure the English translations have different insults too. On the Wikipedia page, the translator was quoted as saying how weird 'blistering barnacles' sounded in Indonesian, so he just decided to go with something else entirely. I would loooove to see Haddock's insults in all the languages XD. And omg are you seeing some of Haddock's insults in the picture? 'Polynesian' and 'Aborigine', yeesh. D:

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Hergé was a terrible racist. His early stuff is appalling. So much so that a lot of it has been edited, and a couple of his bandes déssinées have never even been reprinted.

Alas for my childhood classics.

My father was always careful to point out all the places where Hergé was being a racist/sexist ass whenever we read the books together, just to make sure I didn't get the wrong ideas.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

That's really good of your dad! Awesome. Yeah man, alas my childhood classics too! I was mad big into Donald Duck comics when I was a little kid too, just into Donald Duck in general. Okay, I still am. Some of the Donald comics and cartoons are pretty damn racist, and I only realize now when I'm reconsuming.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I just figured out that "thundering typhoons" is probably a translation of "tonnerre de Brest!" which actually comes from (prepare for historical trivia) the firing of the cannons every day in the city of Brest to signal the opening and closing of the fortress. :)

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Oh huh! Cool! Good to know curses for from all times for all occasions. :D