I was looking through the movies released in 2015, and I bumped into The Peanuts Movie. Imagine my surprise when I saw one of my favorite comic books has turned into a 3D movie. Charles M. Schulz and Bill Watterson are my most adored cartoonists. I learned a lot from good ol' Charlie Brown and Calvin & Hobbes when I was a kid and those lessons are making sense now!
And the one that takes the cake now that I'm a grown-up:
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That's nothing, pronounce this:
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I checked how to pronounce "flabbergasted" and it's nuts! :D
But I admit it's my fault... It's been years trying to learn pronunciation in the youtube channel "Pronunciation Manual" :D
You'll get here a rough idea of my pronunciation skills:
Here's what I could find about your word of the day:
"Perhaps from some dialect (in 1823flabbergast was noted as a Sussex word), perhaps ultimately an arbitrary formation alluding to flabby or flapper and aghast. "
hahhaha very good one! :D
As a wise man told me once, "Life is too short to learn German."
Mafalda's author is argentinian, so yeah... it's more easy to find her talkin' in Spanish :)
Btw, new word for me: "flabbergasted". What a word! I'm not sure to be able to pronounce that haha... I can feel there the germanic root of the english language :D
I was flabbergasted too, pal! I really miss the black and white version. When I was a kid, these comic strips and/or books were my second coloring books.
P.S. Thanks for Mafalda, as far as I know It's huge in Spanish, right?
A 3D Peanuts Movie?! Oh my!! Sacrilege!! :P
I can't hate more this "let's remake the old good stuff" movement.
I adore these old comic strips, and you just mentioned 2 of my most favorite authors. But my total admiration and respect goes for Bill Watterson; not only because his comic strip and influence has been very important for a couple of generations, but also because of his principles and respect for his own work. He NEVER did merchandising with his comic and he had to fight a hard battle for that (he could have earned a HUGE amount of money, but he refused that out of respect for his work) So I'm happy that I won't see a 'Calvin and Hobbes 3D movie'... at least not in the next 100 years :)
Thanks for sharing these samples of two of the best comic strips ever! It brings me lot of memories :')
But let me add here my third favorite one: Mafalda (by the great Quino) The most 'rebel' little girl! :)
Why, thank you Sophi(a)sticated.I really appreciate it.