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Grazie Brigitta, tutti i post che hai dedicato alle traduzioni meriterebbero cento pollici in su.

Grazie, ma il merito va diviso fra tutti i traduttori. Purtroppo a volte non possiamo dedicare molto tempo alle traduzioni (Don ha ragione quando dice che sono impegnative), ma cerchiamo di fare il possibile, alternandoci compatibilmente con le nostre disponibilita'.
Del resto e' uno sforzo che vale la pena fare, per continuare a godere della sua presenza fra noi

Grazie mille, bella Brigitta!

Mi aggiungo ai ringraziamenti per il lavoro di tutti i traduttori. Non sapete quanto conti per me il lavoro che state svolgendo, permettendomi di leggere le risposte di Don Rosa, facendo un baffo alle odiose barriere linguistiche!!!

Mi dispiace che Brigitta si sia preso il fastidio di tradurre praticamente tutti i post arretrati :(. Purtroppo in questo periodo, come forse vi sarete accorti, l'università mi sta impegnando non poco; appena possibile, comunque, sono sempre disponibile a dare una mano.

un "bravissima!" a brigitta per le traduzioni (credete che mi ucciderà se posto un'altro "listone" di domande al Don ?)

Hi Don! How are you?

I want to ask you some questions a little bit different from the other ones.

1) Can you tell me about your personal duck collection? Everytime I see it on the internet I'm always fashinated for all your statues, plushies and all the rest!
In my own small way I try to have a collection too, but I hope to have more and more when I'll be an adult. What is the object you like the most?

2) I presume you think that Donald has a normal manly voice, do you?
If we'll have a new duck TV show I'd like to solve the "problem" of his voice with a voiceover that would talk for him as narration, meantime he could talk with his usual ducky voice we all know.
Something like: "that was a quiet day except for the slide I had on the soap in the bathroom" (thought with a normal voice)... "squaaaaack! Damned nephews!" (ducky voice)

3) Maybe someone else already ask you this question, but I don't remember the answer: how did you work for Egmont if you only speak english? Are there language experts? How did you communicate with telephone calls and letters?
Finally, an italian comic writer that only know his language could work for Egmont, or does he need to know at least english?

Bye!


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Ciao, Don! Come stai?

Volevo farti qualche domandina un po' diversa dalle solite.

1) Mi puoi parlare un po' della tua collezione personale di oggettistica paperosa? Quando in internet vedo le foto rimango sempre affascinato da tutte quelle statue, pupazzi e oggetti vari!
Nel mio piccolo tento di portare anche io la mia collezione ma in età adulta spero di avere un buon numero di pezzi. Qual è l'oggetto che più ti piace?

2) Penso che per te Paperino parli con voce da adulto normale. Vero?
Qualora venisse presentata una nuova serie TV sui paperi mi piacerebbe che a risolvere il "problema" fosse una normale voce fuori campo che parlasse per Paperino come narrazione, mentre quest'ultimo parlerebbe con la sua voce starnazzante che tutti conosciamo.
Quacosa tipo: "la giornata iniziò in modo tranquillo tranne che per la scivolata sulla saponetta del bagno" (pensiero con voce normale)... "sbaraquaaack! dannati nipoti!" (voce paperosa)

3) Forse questa domanda te l'avranno fatta in molti, ma al momento non ricordo la tua eventuale risposta: come hai fatto a lavorare alla Egmont se parli solo l'inglese? Ci sono esperti di lingua? Come comunicavi con telefonate o lettere varie?
E infine, uno sceneggiatore italiano che conosce solo la sua lingua potrebbe lavorare alla Egmont, o sarebbe in tal caso necessaria almeno una conoscenza di inglese?

Ciao!

Don, i've read (in english...it's a little bit hard to undertand all) The curse of nostrildamus...why you didn't use the real name (Nostradamus), but a fictional one? often your historical details are very accurate: why not in this story?

PS: i know that nostrildamus is "a person with a big nose" (like the character in the story)...but someone made me notice that Nostrildamus is , in english,a word linked to sex...it is true?

italiano:

don, perchè nella Maledizione di nostrildamus non hai usato il vero nome (nostradamus)? generalmente i tuoi aneddoti storici sono accurati

PS: mi hanno fatto notare che nostrildamus, in inglese, significa "grosso naso" (come il personaggio della storia), ma è anche una parola legata al sesso...è vero?

Vito:
>>>>>1) Can you tell me about your personal duck collection?

I wouldn't know where to begin! I have numerous cases filled with Duck toys & figurines. They are not so much "displayed" as they are "HEAPED" in the cases. I have no idea how many there are -- certainly many thousands.
But I only collect figurines or three-dimensional figural toys -- not just anything with a picture of a Disney Duck on it.

And since I started collecting the toys strictly due to my love of Barks' comics, in other words reading material (not due to any love of the animated version), I therefor also collect any Disney Duck item "with pages". So that means comic books, storybooks, coloring books, puzzle books, etc., etc.

I have an exhaustive collection of such items dating back to the early to mid 1940's. I really don't know of any Duck toys or figurines or American "things with pages" of the last 65 years that I don't have, though there are surely a few. I have no interest in the 1930's items because (besides being too expensive!) they are too obviously based on the Disney Donald, especially the early "spoonbill" Donald toys. I can tell myself the later style Disney Donald is the comic book character (even though I know it isn't really).

 I don't like saying "Disney Duck" since I only collect them due to my love of Barks' comics, not Disney's cartoons. But I admit that virtually all of these Duck items are based more on Disney than Barks. And for that reason, after 35 years, I have recently gotten a bit weary of the collection and would like to sell it all and only keep the $crooge items, or other items that are clearly inspired by Barks' work rather than Disney.

I also have gotten pretty tired of Disney items during the last 20+ years which are too often designed to exploit the brainless "collectibles" market. I want none of that idiocy. Collecting rare items is based on the fun of searching for actually RARE, hard-to-find items, whether they are Duck toys or anything else. This idea of "limited edition" toys or art that's been a Disney staple since the 1980's is ludicrous. Imagine -- purposely creating a rare item by only making a limited number, designed to appeal to people who want to think of themselves as "collectors" but don't want to invest the time, energy and mental activity being a true collector entails. (The limited number manufactured is, of course, based on the number they anticipate tricking fools into buying.) This collectibles racket is partly what has taken the fun out of buying newer items.

>>>>> What is the object you like the most?

Oh, I have a definite favorite. In 1960 Dell Comics produced a few rubber toys based on the Disney comics they produced. They sent these to subscibers to their comic books. One rubber figurine was a wonderful $crooge sitting on a bank with Huey, Dewey & Louie looking up at him. This is the best $crooge toy ever produced anytime, anywhere on Earth. The reason that's true is that it's the only $crooge toy produced by the company that CREATED $crooge -- Dell Comics (& Carl Barks). It's the only authentic $crooge item ever made.

But I also have a definite favorite series of toys -- the ones that came with that Italian comic book series a few years ago. Those are all magnificent (even if I don't know all the characters). What makes those toys/figurines so good is that they are the ONLY other toys in history produced (as were the Dell toys) by comic artists who actually KNEW the characters and knew what they were doing! All other Disney toys around the world were always designed by people who really knew nothing about the characters.

>>>>>2) I presume you think that Donald has a normal manly voice, do you?

Of course he does! Barks' Donald Duck talked with a normal voice. Disney's Donald Duck talked with that silly duck voice.

>>>>>3) how did you work for Egmont if you only speak english?

Egmont is, of course, a multi-national company based in Denmark. And in all my travels around Scandinavia in the past 20 years, I have never met a Scandinavian who did not speak and write better English with better pronunciation and a bigger vocabulary, than my neighbors here in Kentucky. And English is the "official company language" of Egmont since they have writers and artists in many countries. Everything is done in English at Egmont -- all communication, all script writing, etc. -- the comic story scripts are sent out to publishers in English. Then  translated into other languages at the Egmont publishing branches in various countries, or by other publishers who request the material (such as ZP).

>>>>>Finally, an italian comic writer that only know his language could work for Egmont, or does he need to know at least english?

I would think he'd need to be able to communicate in English. Egmont doesn't have any Italians working there in Copenhagen to translate. Just as there is no Dane employed by Disney-Italia to translate the Egmont scripts they receive. It's all done in English.

But I also have a definite favorite series of toys -- the ones that came with that Italian comic book series a few years ago.

Are they like these Disney Collection figures?

feidhelm:
>>>>>Are they like these Disney Collection figures?

I'd not seen those until I followed the link you supplied.

Oh, NO! Those are obviously more toys created by Disney itself or a toy company who does not know the comics characters. Look at that sappy Donald! Strutting and smiling like in a typical generic Disney illustration.

The figurines I refer to came with an Italian magazine called DISNEY PARADE a few years ago. Each thin magazine dealt with the entire history of one individual Disney COMICS character describing the character's first and key appearances and all the artists and writers and characteristics of the character. Very scholarly. There were about 30 or 40 of these magazines, all (?) written by my friend and comics expert Luca Boschi! It covered all the Barks characters, all the Gottfredson characters and all the other additional Italian comics characters.

But these were not brainless-looking figurines in all identical happy-happy-happy poses as in the set you show me. These were "intelligent" figures in various emotional poses. For example, there was no happy strutting Donald -- there was a shy, embarrassed Donald and a fighting MAD Donald. These figurines were designed by people who knew these characters with individual personalities -- not just happy icons with generic smiles.

I would be *stunned* to learn that these DISNEY PARADE figurines are not famous with comics fans across Italia! Don't all Disney comics fans in Italia have the whole set?

(And even though this other set is inferior, I see a $crooge figurine. How can I obtain one? Are there other $crooges from the past few years?)

sed:
>>>>>i've read "The curse of nostrildamus"...why you didn't use the real name (Nostradamus), but a fictional one? often your historical details are very accurate: why not in this story?

Because I needed there to be an above-ground tomb where this character lived, and where there was a "magic" amulet that could be found. How could I use the actual Nostradamus when there were no such items associated with him?

>>>>> i know that nostrildamus is "a person with a big nose" (like the character in the story)...but someone made me notice that Nostrildamus is , in english,a word linked to sex...it is true?

?!?!?!?! I thought you were crazy until I did Googled "Nostrildamas". Sure enough, it has a very bad slang meaning. I have certainly never heard that usage (and I'm happy to say I would never have had reason to have heard it!).       Ugh.

Frankly, I'd never heard the name used before even in reference to someone with a big nose -- I thought I'd made the name up for my story.

I would be STUNNED to learn that these DISNEY PARADE figurines are not famous with comics fans across Italia! Don't all Disney comics fans have the whole set?

(And even though this other set is inferior, I see a $crooge figurine. How can I obtain one? Are there other $crooges from the past few years?)

Sure, we know them! If you can interesting, here there are part of the collection:

http://www.toremmodellismo.it/MERCATINO/MERC.PERS.TOP.3D_1.htm

The rest you can see there.

There is also a second $crooge of "Disney Collection":







Certainly find them on eBay.

Pacuvio:
>>>>>There is also a second $crooge of "Disney Collection":

Yes, I'd like to get one of those also (even though the coin in his hand is the wrong color, gold rather than silver).

Anyone want to swap me those figurines for a drawing?