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Originally Posted by ATDrake
And I sometimes wonder how people who don't actually read French view Poirot's frequent untranslated* francophone interjections. As some kind of colourful foreign decoration which doesn't need to be understood? Random noises that Belgian detectives make when excited? A frustrating exercise in WTF is he just saying?
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We don't speak French but my country has a very strong French heritage, and I absolutely love Poirot's
"colourful foreign decoration" (I like this phrase, btw
). I just think of them as a character quirk; if he didn't say them he wouldn't be the same Poirot. In any case, I think they're easy enough to look up if you don't know them, and negligible enough to ignore if you don't care to bother looking them up
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Originally Posted by ATDrake
It seems to me that I've seen it at least once in one of Georgette Heyer's mysteries when I read the entire lot of them after a Sourcebooks sale, and I've heard it happens in Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey series as well. And I've seen it in at least one other Christie I've read, also. |
Speaking of Georgette Heyer, I found most of her mysteries to have male victims whose heirs are almost always their nephews; what was up with that?
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Originally Posted by CRussel
Oh, you are so lucky. You have some real fun in front of you.
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I'm looking forward to starting them