{"id":5439,"date":"2012-02-21T08:45:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=5439"},"modified":"2012-02-21T08:45:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:45:16","slug":"holy-bilingual-sound-effects-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/21\/holy-bilingual-sound-effects-batman\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy bilingual sound effects, Batman!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It had never occurred to me that comic book sound effects would be different in other languages\u2014I guess because I&#8217;ve always foolishly assumed sounds were sounds, right?\u2014until I went to blow my nose the other day.<\/p>\n<p>See, Irene had bought a box of Puff tissues, one with a superhero-themed design she knew would entertain me, and I&#8217;d been using it for months, only noticing the sides which had <em>BOOM!<\/em> and<em> Zap!<\/em> written on it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SuperheroTissuesEnglish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5440\" title=\"SuperheroTissuesEnglish\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SuperheroTissuesEnglish-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SuperheroTissuesEnglish-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SuperheroTissuesEnglish-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But then I noticed that the remaining two sides, rather than <em>BOOM!<\/em> and<em> Zap!<\/em>, were emblazoned with the sound effects <em>BOUM! <\/em>and <em>Vlan!<\/em>, which would allow the box to also be sold in France.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SuperheroTissuesFrench.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5441\" title=\"SuperheroTissuesFrench\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SuperheroTissuesFrench-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SuperheroTissuesFrench-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SuperheroTissuesFrench-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You all probably already know this, but it was news to me, and I felt a bit sheepish to have learned it so late.<\/p>\n<p>Who says blowing your nose can&#8217;t be educational?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had never occurred to me that comic book sound effects would be different in other languages\u2014I guess because I&#8217;ve always foolishly assumed sounds were sounds, right?\u2014until I went to blow my nose the other day. See, Irene had bought a box of Puff tissues, one with a superhero-themed design she knew would entertain me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-5439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}