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Cowardly Goth interpreter who dreams of marrying and having lots of little barbarians<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Translating an Asterix album is always a huge challenge, given the number of quotes, allusions, puns and dual meanings liberally disseminated by Ren\u00e9 Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. But there are also risks involved in interpreting Asterix, Obelix and Getafix themselves: just ask Rhetoric, who has the heavy task in\u00a0Asterix and the Goths<\/i><\/a>\u00a0of interpreting into the Gothic language the sayings of our Gauls, while avoiding offense to his master, the terrible Metric.<\/p>\n

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Rather than faithfully translating the Gauls’ answers, which would be sure to arouse his chief’s anger, Rhetoric transforms the Gauls’ \u00abno\u00bb into \u00abyes\u00bb in the Gothic language, which comes across as a lot more cooperative.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, Getafix speaks Goth fluently (with a slight accent), and uncovers Rhetoric’s lies, quickly landing him in the dungeon, waiting to be drawn and quartered (\u00abdrawing and quartering is so banal, but it’s always good for a laugh,\u00bb as Metric would say). But Getafix, who wants to spread chaos and confusion among the Goths, gives Rhetoric the wicked interpreter a taste of magic potion, which really sets things off and has all of the Goths seeking to replace their chief![\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”16331″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1731919548377{padding-right: 10% !important;padding-left: 10% !important;}” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":23821,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"portfolio_category":[438,439],"bandes-dessinees":[449],"class_list":["post-38521","personnages","type-personnages","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-the-characters","portfolio_category-the-others","bandes-dessinees-asterix-et-les-goths-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAst\u00e9rix<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ast\u00e9rix\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"CollectionPage\",\"@id\":null,\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/#website\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Ast\u00e9rix\",\"description\":\"The official website\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ast\u00e9rix","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_site_name":"Ast\u00e9rix","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":null,"url":"","name":"","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/#website"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/","name":"Ast\u00e9rix","description":"The official website","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnages\/38521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/personnages"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=38521"},{"taxonomy":"bandes-dessinees","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asterix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bandes-dessinees?post=38521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}