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Fabio Blanco longtom at oeste.com.ar
Tue Jan 30 01:05:41 CET 2001


Stefan Diös did write
>"It's a Jap ambush! -- I see you, you little slant-eyed nips! I'll skewer
>you on my bayonet like mutton chops! -- Jump in the ocean and swim back to
>Japan!"
>
>When the story was published in Sweden in 1959, this belligerent dialog
>actually was translated more or less literally. I was involved in the
>reprint in 1988 and decided it was time to tone it down ever so slightly...

I really can't celebrate that decition... Sound like censorship to me... I
think the Donald Speech is an ironic (or cinical) one that remember the
dialogues from the WWII strips... like Buzz Sawyer, par example...

(Caution, Charlie is listening!)

Fabio
(from the far, far  Buenos Aires)

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