Re: Brugmann's Law

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.

Piotr