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Jungle's Law - Ze Greencollars Ouiquende

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EN FRANCAIS : La loi de la jungle - Ze greencollars ouiquende

This is an attempt in translating in english a comics page published originally in French. I doubt the pun can be understood but let's have a try. It deserves a few ex^planation though :

When a French hears "quack", he hears "couac", and a "couac" in french is a "sour or wrong (music) note" hence translated in french "fausse note"... (in the french version of this page, the action is reversed - ducks have a week end journey to England... In French ducks don't say "quak" but "coin" - go figure - so the French ducks in my story know they are in England when they hear the local ducks saying "corner", litteral translation of "coin".) I know, totally absurd type of humor... 

Same for the bird, "cheep, cheep" is heard as "cheap" by a French, which can be directly "translated" then, by "pas cher" (unexpensive, cheap)... 

For the title phonetically, it means "The Greencollars Week End" - except, here again a twist in the translation being that "greencollar" has no sense in english but looks like the litteral translation of "colvert" (col = collar ; vert = green) which this kind of ducks with the green head - in fact the correct translation of a colvert is a "mallard duck"...

The basic idea being to make this page looks like it was translated by Google Translator or by a bad translator working from an asian company like some directions for use translated from chinese to english u can find sometimes... This page was meant for French people who generally have a poor level in english - with puns normally untranslatable but someone challanged me to find a way to do it... so here is the poor result...
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K-naille's avatar
Ahah, almost as funny!