[infinite monkey]

Would you look at that? I buried the lead.

(paraphrase of Albert Brooks' character in Broadcast News)

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Never read Tintin and you studied Frentch?

srsly?

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Yeah, I don't know. My teachers must have wanted us to be at a level above, like, comics.

Yeah, srsly. Why is that so weird? We had to converse and stuff.

That's like "Dude, you totally studied Spanish and you never watched Dora the Explorer? Srsly?"

Originally Posted by Tulip

Hmm...it's cultural? I know Tin Tin. I would use comics in a language class. Infinite Monkey, did you learn French in college? Perhaps that's the reason why you weren't introduced to French comics. Come to think of it, I can't recall where I was introduced to Tin Tin.

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Oh well. I must have dreamed two years of french in hs and two terms in college. I can't have done it, I don't know the cartoons.

Now are you oh so worldly ones done trying to point out my cultural ineptitude, or is Dudley Do-right on? I want to learn more about (aboot, I think?) Canadian culture.

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Also, they didn't have Dora the Explora when I was in school. They barely even had written language back then, but they did have Tin Tin translated into Spanish.