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[–] 9 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Is Tintin not called Tintin??? I am a bit confused about the latter

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Take a look at the trailer for Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin (a delightful movie, even though I had a really hard time getting used to these characters speaking English) and listen to the way Tintin pronounces his own name in English:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiPUce42iww

    I can only assume that the way he says it in the movie is the normal way it's said in English and indeed, that sounds weird.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    So long i or what? I don't really ubderstand your answer

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    In French it'd be closed to Tonton / Tantan but almost don't pronounce the n's.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (1 child)

    I just guess it's about French pronunciation. The tin is pronounced with a nasal long open vowel instead of a clear n.

    PS you can go to french Wikipedia entry for Tintin and listen to it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    I could not find it on the wikipedia but I did find other options to listen to it. It does not sound like whatever you wrote earlier. The i is nowhere to be found but the n is really there, just as you said unclear.

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