Re: Brugmann's Law

On Pet, siječanj 18, 2008 3:03 am, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> On 2008-01-18 02:46, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
>> I've wondered how Fred Flintstone was received in
>> Slavic countries with his yabba-dabba-doo which sounds
>> like /jeba-deba-duu/. My Serbian friend told me that
>> in the Serbian version they pronounce it /jaaba/.
>> --which is a shame.
>
> When it was first shown on TV in Poland, in the late 1970s, it had a
> voice-over translation superimposed on the original sound version.
> Yabba-dabba-doo was not translated, so we just had Fred's battle-cry as
> performed by Alan Reed. I somehow never associated it with swearing.

Me neither, in Croatian pronuntiation it would be jaba-daba-du, but even
in English it doesn't remind me of "jebati".

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