Talk:The Blue Lotus

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Is "accuratesse" supposed to be a French word? The correct translation for "accuracy" would be "exactitude" or "précision". Hugo Dufort 01:05, 18 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Probably pseudo-intellectual "French". Google only turns up usage in Dutch. - mako 10:30, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Dutch isn't the only language to have such a word. Danish and German both have akkuratesse. In Danish, the word is slightly posh or archaic. Valentinian T / C 10:41, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

"When it finally allowed publication in 1984, some pictures of the examples of Western prejudice were altered or even taken out completely"

any reference or links to this ?


 * I think it is wrong. I have a recent Chinese edition. I rewrote the text completely. Mlewan 12:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Poldavia
This fictional country was not an invention of Hergé's. See http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poldavie. Opera hat (talk) 19:20, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Each peach pear plum…
…is a traditional children’s rhyme, used for many activities (skipping, bouncing balls, or (as we tended to do) choosing a person for another purpose - selecting the finder in hide-and-seek). It may have been quoted by the Ahlbergs, as the book uses characters and situations from many traditional nursery rhymes, but they didn’t originate that formula; if you google it, you’ll find many references to the same basic rhyme. Also the Ahlbergs only started publish (according to Wikipedia) about the time "Blue Lotus" came to English, so I’d doubt that there is any connection at all. Jock123 (talk) 08:45, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's accurate to include this among cultural references, since they're only in the translated edition. The article should rather include the equivalents from the French original. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 20:08, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Which lotus
The link in the lead from blue lotus is currently piped to Nelumbo nucifera, one of several posible meanings of blue lotus and it seems an unlikely one on reading the current articles. Andrewa (talk) 06:51, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Howso? 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 14:41, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Refs
Hi Midnightblueowl, I made a couple of minor tweaks on the refs where the sfn wasn't working. There's a couple of others to look at where the wrong year is either in the template or in the biblio:


 * FN15 - Thompson 2001: Biblio has 1991
 * FN21 - Assouline 2012: Biblio has 2009
 * FN49 - Lofficier & Lofficier 2012: Biblio has 2002
 * FN65 & 66 - McCarthy 2004: Biblio has 2006

Hope these help! Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 06:13, 24 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Got the rest of them for her. —Prhartcom   (talk)  16:47, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Sir Malcolm Campbell
If anyone was wondering about the reference to Sir Malcolm Campbell that was removed from the colour version: it's in a newsreel that Tintin watches when hiding in the cinema. The scene was published in Le Petit Vingtième on 21 March 1935, not long after Campbell broke the land speed record in Blue Bird on 7 March at Daytona Beach. Opera hat (talk) 13:29, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

Front page mention from 22-08-09
On "this day in history" it says this story began serialization in 1942 but that does not seem to correspond with any information in this article. 2600:4040:22F0:A900:C7A4:2CE8:D137:7792 (talk) 07:47, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I raised the error at WP:ERRORS. Fram (talk) 08:00, 9 August 2022 (UTC)