Saturday, February 29, 2020

陸離女士是香港資深花生漫畫迷, 1970年代開始在星島晚報翻譯花生漫畫,她可算是把Peanuts Comic帶到香港的第一人。
這篇文章是她2010年寫的。

劃這篇文章的重點:
😄真正喜歡花生漫畫的人會自稱是「花生漫畫迷」,而並非「史諾比迷」. 而真正喜歡花生漫畫的人不會只愛Snoopy.
😄陸老師好堅持香港官方translation: 「舒爾茲」、「史諾比」、「豬圈仔」、「重播」。甚至是Schroeder,她堅持是「舒路達」,因為「史高達」(ATV translation) 不能和musicians 舒曼、舒伯特相連。
😄「史諾比」出自香港作家亦舒的手筆,陸老師非常抗拒香港人叫佢做「史努比/史奴比」。
😄她對美國總公司在舒爾茲老師去世後一些做法不認同。
http://www.dengxiaoyu.net/newsinfo.asp?ID=688

Thursday, February 27, 2020

When did Woodstock first appear in the Peanuts Comic?

Up to now I find out 3 answers:

Answer 1:
By gocomics.com and Andrews McMeel
https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1964/08/02
https://licensing.andrewsmcmeel.com/features/pe?date=1964-08-02
(Both websites are official, since Andrew McMeel bought UFS in year 2011.) First appears on 2nd August 1964.

Answer 2:
https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/Woodstock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_(Peanuts)
First appearance March 4, 1966 (comic strip) (unnamed until June 22, 1970)

Answer 3:
snoopy.com
First appearance April 4, 1967
其實呢一點,美國有一部份資深Snoopy fans 一直認定snoopy.com和peanuts.com做事沒有求真。事緣Schulz family 曾經出版一本叫The Snoopy Treasure的書,書內Page 89是提及Woodstock 是1966/03/04 first appearance, 咁他們當Schulz Family 係神咁拜的一派就會認為,snoopy.com在Schulz逝世後做事求其,http://snoopy.com/ 網站為何不fact check咗先。
Which one is correct?
我自己就無乜所謂,反正我心目中,Woodstock 60年代初(比1964年或1966年或1967年更早)已經用不同的姿態進入Snoopy的生活裏了😀





Wednesday, February 26, 2020

19690825



https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1969/08/25
https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2005/08/29 
https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2016/08/22
The Peanuts Comic contains 6,888,004 letters and 1,382,215 words.

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

因為最近疫情,很多公司都用Zoom這個視象會議軟件Home office 地開會,也有大學/中學/小學用Zoom進行實時教學,筆者更攪笑地上週末用Zoom和一班朋友「聚餐」。
但原來早在1955年8月28日,Schulz已經在用Zoom了!
#開心防疫抗疫

Monday, February 24, 2020

花生漫畫人物動詞之謎?

我這陣子硏究了各個角色speech bubbles 的動作用詞(動詞),中文翻譯一律用「説」,但發現英文原著是比較仔細:
Snoopy and Woodstock 以外人類:thinks / says / asks / answers / adds / announces / tells / replies / explains / exclaims / shouts / continues / suggests / yells/ complains/ talks
Snoopy: thinks
Woodstock: speaks

Sunday, February 23, 2020

Some interesting statistics in the 17897 Peanuts Comic strips:
Charlie Brown occurs in 9503 strips, 53.1%.
Snoopy occurs in 8163 strips, 45.6%.
Woodstock occurs in 1609 strips.
Sally occurs in 2103 strips.
Lucy occurs in 4849 strips.
Linus occurs in 4200 strips.
Peppermint Patty occurs in 2063 strips.

Saturday, February 22, 2020

微博上看見的,我改寫了。(Part 3)

挪威版
"你好,這店的wifi密碼是?"
"胡士托,細階的。"
我輸入woodstock,幾次都失敗了,
我都懷疑自己英文太差,拼錯了單詞!
弱弱地問: "對不起,能寫給我嗎?"
店員面帶尶尬,傳過來一張字條,只見上面寫着: Fredrikke

芬蘭版
"你好,這店的wifi密碼是?"
"胡士托,細階的。"
我輸入woodstock,幾次都失敗了,
我都懷疑自己英文太差,拼錯了單詞!
弱弱地問: "對不起,能寫給我嗎?"
店員面帶尶尬,傳過來一張字條,只見上面寫着: Kaustinen