tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post3158919554545782753..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Excalibur #38Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-62109458052973316802016-02-13T14:53:06.511-06:002016-02-13T14:53:06.511-06:00Thanks. Apparently I wrote the entry in the "...Thanks. Apparently I wrote the entry in the "move one issue ahead" template instead of the present post, and never noticed. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-66198177083007616912016-02-13T14:52:11.056-06:002016-02-13T14:52:11.056-06:00Also, I do not know for a fact, but it is possible...<i>Also, I do not know for a fact, but it is possible that the Germans would use the phrase "that tastes good" as an idiom for being down with something</i><br /><br />I've never encountered that as an idiom myself, though my study of German is far from comprehensive - despite minoring in it in college, I've never considered myself fluent. <br /><br />That's certainly true. It's one of the things I find most fascinating about languages. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-41927540411712444822016-02-13T14:34:13.521-06:002016-02-13T14:34:13.521-06:00I'm pretty sure "Otherplace" gets us...I'm pretty sure "Otherplace" gets used again, later. In this series, I think, as well as the limited series that installs Amanda as the ruler of Limbo (before they decided to bring Illyana back for good), though I can't remember offhand what it's called. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-77724773323194114002016-02-07T20:41:36.792-06:002016-02-07T20:41:36.792-06:00Pssst... Your post header says #39 but this is #38...<br>Pssst... Your post header says #39 but this is #38.<br /><br /><i>// Also "doppelganger" is hardly a word whose usage would make me think the speaker knows German //</i><br /><br />Right?<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-68340300919353142022016-02-05T03:41:39.953-06:002016-02-05T03:41:39.953-06:00Nightcrawler and Scarlet Witch speak German togeth...<i>Nightcrawler and Scarlet Witch speak German together (reasonably accurately, though a lot of Scarlet Witch's words are misspelled and at one point she says "that tastes good" when I think she means "that would please me". Also "doppelganger" is hardly a word whose usage would make me think the speaker knows German).</i><br /><br />I got a hang-up myself with exactly the same thing, but then I thought that maybe she pronounces it the correct way and that's what catches Kurt's ear.<br /><br />Also, I do not know for a fact, but it is possible that the Germans would use the phrase "that tastes good" as an idiom for being down with something, like for example I in my local lingo would say "don't matter" when I in fact mean "I find myself in perfect agreement with your proposal, my good man, let us proceed." As our editor-translator once stated on the letter col, "translating is creative work and not some machinary business"... and that's probably why his translated title for UXM #220, "Unfinished Business", turns into "Fish Creditor" if you try to counter-engineer it with Google Translate.<br /><br />Marvel Universe seems to have had a German-speaking enclave in the Latveria-Transia area which the real-world Serbia-Romania border never got around developing.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-70897535347465453892016-02-05T02:59:57.862-06:002016-02-05T02:59:57.862-06:00"Dr. Doom refers to Limbo as "Otherplace..."Dr. Doom refers to Limbo as "Otherplace", which is, I think, the first use of that term to describe Belasco's/Illyana's Limbo"<br /><br />Has anyone ever referred to it as that? It seems like the majority of people still call it Limbo. Even now, in the current X-books, I think they still do call it that. <br /><br />I have to admit, the pre-Solo Davis Lobdell run isn't that bad. It isn't the most memorable stuff this series has given us, but it does seem to hold up better than some of the stuff we get with Lobdell later on in the run. And it does help his run comes after a period of directionless fill-ins, whereas the next batch of issue he gives are during Davis' run and after.wwk5dnoreply@blogger.com