Dukburg

Olaf Solstrand olaf at andebyonline.com
Mon Oct 20 17:44:26 CEST 2003


> BTW: What language is used in Dukburg? English? Or could they have their
> own language?

Asking what language is used in Duckburg, is like asking what time it is on the 
North Pole...

Nah, if we stick to thinking of Duckburg as a town in the United States of 
America, let's say they use English...

.but in most cases where I've seen our friends from Duckburg, they have been 
talking Norwegian. In other cases, they have been talking English. In many 
cases, the cases where they have been talking Norwegian and the cases where 
they were talking English turned out to be the exact same case, depending on 
where in the world the publication is printed. And I'm sure you've seen many of 
the same stories in... German, I guess. So, Duckburg uses the language of 
Fantasy. They use all different languages at once, depending on who's listening.

Just like Santa Claus, you know... He talks all different languages so that 
everybody is able to understand him. And I'm sure that if Santa were to talk to 
a Norwegian child and a Japanese child at the same time, they would both 
understand him - because the language he uses is the language of fantasy. 
Everybody understands it. That's the language they use in Duckburg.

Or English, I guess.


Olaf


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