Swedes and character names in strange languages

[Ole Reichstein Nielsen]

Sigvald:
>I am *not* against lists of Disney characters' names written with alphabets
>or signs other than the latin alphabet - I am only against giving such
>information prioriy in front of IMO more realated languages.

But if you read the text piece that goes along with the character name
list, you will - perhaps - realize the intentions of the list of
corresponding
names being quite the opposite, namely meant to illustrate the variety of
languages, and yet culture- and language-transcending way the Disney
characters speak to us. "I am a duck, and nothing human is foreign to me",
as Cicero almost once said.

The short text goes like this (in the 1978 American Abbeville edition):

<QUOTE> "WALT DISNEY AROUND THE WORLD

The strength of the Disney language - that is, the powerful vein of
subtle humor that runs through his characters, the immediacy and
warmth of their communication, their delightfully human persona-
lities - has been transformed into a universal language and today
his characters are known, esteemed, and admired around the
world. They are present in twenty-four nations and speak seven-
teen different languages. Here, are the names of some of Walt's
chief characters in nine languages." <endQUOTE>

-- Ole