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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
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Comic strip, moon years, heartland spewing niceties
Comic strip hero Tintin, the Belgian reporter with the weird hairdo, landed on the moon years before Neil Armstrong did. But as far as speaking in Hindi goes, he's running a bit behind schedule. He finally arrived in the Hindi heartland spewing niceties like 'bhagwan bhala kare', 'mujhe maaf kijiye' and 'mera saubhagya' this week. His favourite phrase 'Great Snakes' has finally adapted to the emergence of the Indian market and turned to 'Baal ki khaal'.
The well-travelled reporter and his troupe - pet dog Snowy, master of swear-words Captain Haddock, bumbling detective twins Thomson and Thompson and absent-minded and deaf Professor Calculus - have translated their quirky speech mannerisms into 58 international languages before learning our national language. They have even been speaking in Bengali for some time. Tintin visited India in The Cigars of the Pharoah, the fourth in the 81-year-old series. His India trip was packed with all the stereotypes you would expect - a fakir, an elephant, a holy cow and a Maharaja (of Gaipajama, if you please). Once again, on his way to Tibet he landed in Delhi in Tintin in Tibet. Despite the two trips, he did not pick up any Hindi until until 2005, when Delhi-based publisher Om Books approached Caterman for translation rights.
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The well-travelled reporter and his troupe - pet dog Snowy, master of swear-words Captain Haddock, bumbling detective twins Thomson and Thompson and absent-minded and deaf Professor Calculus - have translated their quirky speech mannerisms into 58 international languages before learning our national language. They have even been speaking in Bengali for some time. Tintin visited India in The Cigars of the Pharoah, the fourth in the 81-year-old series. His India trip was packed with all the stereotypes you would expect - a fakir, an elephant, a holy cow and a Maharaja (of Gaipajama, if you please). Once again, on his way to Tibet he landed in Delhi in Tintin in Tibet. Despite the two trips, he did not pick up any Hindi until until 2005, when Delhi-based publisher Om Books approached Caterman for translation rights.
Please explain to me the highlighted parts.
Source : Mumbaimirror
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Hi, Comic strip short stories told in the form of hand-drawn pictures hero Tintin, the Belgian reporter with the weird hairdo, ( landed on the moon ) ( years before Neil Armstrong did ) . But as far as speaking in Hindi goes, he's running a bit behind schedule. He finally arrived in the Hindi heartland the central area of Hindi culture spewing saying a lot of niceties in this context, the word means sophisticated and often idiomatic expressions like 'bhagwan bhala kare', 'mujhe maaf kijiye' and 'mera saubhagya' this week.
- Hi, Comic strip short stories told in the form of hand-drawn pictures hero Tintin, the Belgian reporter with the weird hairdo, ( landed on the moon ) ( years before Neil Armstrong did ) .
- But as far as speaking in Hindi goes, he's running a bit behind schedule.
- He finally arrived in the Hindi heartland the central area of Hindi culture spewing saying a lot of niceties in this context, the word means sophisticated and often idiomatic expressions like 'bhagwan bhala kare', 'mujhe maaf kijiye' and 'mera saubhagya' this week.
- His favourite phrase 'Great Snakes' has finally adapted to the emergence of the Indian market and turned to 'Baal ki khaal'.
- The well-travelled reporter and his troupe - pet dog Snowy, master of swear-words Captain Haddock, bumbling detective twins Thomson and Thompson and absent-minded and deaf Professor Calculus - have translated their quirky speech mannerisms into 58 international languages before learning our national language.
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Hi,
Comic strip short stories told in the form of hand-drawn pictures
hero Tintin, the Belgian reporter with the weird hairdo, ( landed on the moon ) ( years before Neil Armstrong di
Comic strip short stories told in the form of hand-drawn pictures
hero Tintin, the Belgian reporter with the weird hairdo, ( landed on the moon ) ( years before Neil Armstrong di
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A comic strip is usually art and dialogue, often found on a page of the newspaper. Garfield and Peanuts are a couple of the better known American comic strips.
"Landed on the moon years before."
Rearranging this sentence: "Several years before Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, Tintin did it in his comic."
Hindi heartland = the center of Hindi-speaking India.
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"Landed on the moon years before."
Rearranging this sentence: "Several years before Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, Tintin did it in his comic."
Hindi heartland = the center of Hindi-speaking India.
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