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JohnnyEnzyme piefed.social JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-11
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"The Island without Kings" (could be stated more elegantly than that, oh well)

This seems pretty interesting, so I'll be checking it out. There's a summary below, plus 12pp from the book (in French).

https://www.bdgest.com/preview-3988-BD-l-ile-ou-le-roi-n-existe-pas-recit-complet.html

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Overspark piefed.social Overspark@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-09-01
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Wow, those underwater compositions are quite something, especially the title page!

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misery mansion lemmy.world calamitycastle@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
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My French sucks but I'd translate it either as

The island whose king doesn't exist, or

The island or the king doesn't exist

I'd love to know how to translate it correctly though

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Yorick piefed.social Yorick@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-08
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My French sucks but I'd translate it either as The island whose king doesn't exist, or The island or the king doesn't exist I'd love to know how to translate it correctly though

When the ou has a ù, it means a place/location.

So it translates to: The island where the king doesn't exist

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loutr sh.itjust.works loutr@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-11
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When the ou has a ù, it means a place/location. So it translates to: The island where the king doesn't exist

Yeah "où" means "where", "ou" means "or".

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