Translation example

[L. Schulte]

In a previous message on language, I mentioned that I used a German 
translation of Christmas for Shacktown in my advanced German classes, and 
commented that the German seems more literary than Barks' original.  An 
example: on the ninth page Donald is asking passers-by for money for the 
Shacktown Christmas party.  A cowboy asks him at the same time for a 
donation to a party for "cowboys who can't yodel".  In German the cowboy 
asks for a donation for the "Small Animal Breeders Society" 
(Kleintierzüchterverein), a word that I assume seems fairly ridiculous in 
German, but is not on the same level as "cowboys who can't 
yodel"  (Cowboys, die nicht jodeln können).
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