Don't Eat The Snow in Hawaii

[Gorilla Mask]

Bahahaha! I just spat out my tea from reading that. Thanks!

Thanks ?? For what, for your launderer's bill ?

Well, i guess we could express all our gratitude for these early 80's script writers who spent all their nights sweeting above français-anglais dictionaries !

Thanks for these good words.

EDIT: To Pahonu: Thanks too for this very interesting scholar and accurate knowledge.

[80s Big Hair]

Hey, Gorilla Mask, this has little to do with this thread but I am curious if the scenes in Magnum, P.I. where French is spoken are passable to a French speaker. For an example Lily (who turns out to be Magnum's daughter) speaks only French and Vietnamese. Higgins and her converse in French. Was that done well? Just curious. Thanks.

[Gorilla Mask]

Hello 80's Big Hair !

The episodes you are talking about are quite remote in my memories, could you specifies which ones you want me to review in original version ?

Usually, french dubbing with american series are very good and well synchronised, so in french version, it is not really noticeable when TM or others are speaking in French.

Would be quite fun to see the french level of TM or Baby Higgie ! Just tell me !

[Styles Bitchley]

Hello 80's Big Hair !

The episodes you are talking about are quite remote in my memories, could you specifies which ones you want me to review in original version ?

Usually, french dubbing with american series are very good and well synchronised, so in french version, it is not really noticeable when TM or others are speaking in French.

Would be quite fun to see the french level of TM or Baby Higgie ! Just tell me !

That would be Little Girl Who (Season 7, Episode 7).

From my memory, the French is poor - just memorized from a script. I'm not a native French speaker, but I get by. It would be good to hear a fresh review from a francophone.

[Gorilla Mask]

hmmmm... (searching frantically amidst a large bunch of DVD…) I got it !

Will review it ASAP and i will let you know my advice !

Styles, were and when did you learned and graduate in French ? That is quite uncommon in the US, no ?

[Styles Bitchley]

hmmmm... (searching frantically amidst a large bunch of DVD…) I got it !

Will review it ASAP and i will let you know my advice !

Styles, were and when did you learned and graduate in French ? That is quite uncommon in the US, no ?

I'm in Canada, actually. Et j'ai vécu à Genève pendant huit ans, en fait.

[Gorilla Mask]

haaaaa, oui, tu vivaiis à "geun'ééééve"….

Et y avait-il le "feu au lac" ?...

désolé for that unforgivable private joking but i was not able to resist…

[Styles Bitchley]

haaaaa, oui, tu vivaiis à "geun'ééééve"….

Et y avait-il le "feu au lac" ?...

désolé for that unforgivable private joking but i was not able to resist…

Yes, yes, it's all true what they say about the Swiss. But I will confess that in my opinion Swiss-French accent and vocabulary is the easiest for non-native speakers to understand.

[80s Big Hair]

Oh. Your DVDs are dubbed into French Gorilla Mask. For some reason I figured they were in English with French subtitles, or just in English. Styles Bitchley seemed to confirm what I suspected-- the French dialogue is pretty bad, but good enough to pass as believable to a non-French speaker. Just out of curiosity I checked on Higgins' English accent. The consensus among Brits is that it was not as good as I thought it was: https://www.quora.com/Was-John-Hillerma ... UK?share=1. It is called acting and I think it was pretty good for someone from Texas. Thanks to the both of you.

[Styles Bitchley]

Oh. Your DVDs are dubbed into French Gorilla Mask. For some reason I figured they were in English with French subtitles, or just in English. Styles Bitchley seemed to confirm what I suspected-- the French dialogue is pretty bad, but good enough to pass as believable to a non-French speaker. Just out of curiosity I checked on Higgins' English accent. The consensus among Brits is that it was not as good as I thought it was: https://www.quora.com/Was-John-Hillerma ... UK?share=1. It is called acting and I think it was pretty good for someone from Texas. Thanks to the both of you.

Back when the forum was a lot more active, there were a lot of Brits, Frenchmen, Scandinavians, and Italians. I remember distinctly a thread that discussed Hillerman’s accent and the opinion from the Brits was that it was quite good, although certain terms were sometimes awkward or incorrect. But that’s on the writers.

[Gorilla Mask]

On second season french DVD (which features US version too, thanks to the heavens... ) I spent some minutes listening to JH english. I would says that is it definitively not a real Cockney . His tone is a bit emphatic, but; well, it sounds to me as a good rated english BBC...

[ENSHealy]

I watched it with the subtitles on and it is defintely "Bulle".

Good source! So was it "La Bulle" or "Le Bulle"?

Anybody here speak French? Does "bulle" actually translate to "bubble"?

I got the feeling from the episode that he was supposed to be more of a "bull" -- maybe somebody was lazy with their translation!

I tend not to trust the subtitles*, so I ordered a copy of the pilot script**, and as you can see below, it is without a doubt*** "La Bulle".

Who knows what they meant? I've always assumed they meant "The Bull" in the sense of a tough-guy gangster nickname, a la Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, but I do like the suggestion someone made here that they actually meant the literal translation of bubble, because of his "invisibility". Seems a little highbrow for Bellisario, but You Never Know.




*Among the many errors I have found in the subtitles**** are the repeated use of a capital I (i...as in g,h,i) where there should be a lower case l (l...as in j, k, l).
** Thereby proving the maxim that a fool and his money are soon parted.
***Unless the script copy I ordered is also a mistake-riddled knock-off.
****at least the ones I have downloaded off the interwebs.