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by croisillon 282 days ago
* Belgian
2 comments
ascorbic 282 days ago
They were written in French.
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kragen 282 days ago
Not a thing.
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IAmBroom 281 days ago
You don't believe in Belgium?

Delaware, sure. But I'm pretty sure Belgium exists.

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rkomorn 281 days ago
I don't know anybody who calls the French spoken in Belgium "Belgian" (if only because it becomes ambiguous since Belgium also uses Dutch and German).

I'm pretty sure that's what the comment was implying.

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croisillon 280 days ago
no, my parent comment was about the museum location: if Hergé was from Québec he might have mentioned a museum in Montreal, if he was from Tahiti he might have mentioned Papeete... since he was from Belgium (a thing) he mentioned Brussels (the capital city of the thing)
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rkomorn 280 days ago
Replacing "French" with "Belgian" in the comment you replied to is the only way to take your "* Belgian" comment.
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croisillon 280 days ago
they didn't say "the original in French" but "the original French"
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kragen 281 days ago
Exactly. Hergé wrote Tintin in French, not in "Belgian".
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