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There is a place in somerset, England called Tintinhull!

Yep! Our Sweden Correspondent (Anders Karlsson) visited Tintinhull one year. :-)

Tintin in my native lanquage.

In Malay Lanquage, we refer it as a name for cats. In fact, alot of malay famillies name their cats 'Tintin'.

I have heard that in philipenes, there are females by the name of Tintin. There are alot of people in Philipenes that like Tintin.

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I have heard that in philipenes, there are females by the name of Tintin. There are alot of people in Philipenes that like Tintin.

Indeed! Filipino girls whose christened name is either "Christine," "Cristine," "Kristine," "Kristina," or "Cristina" usually has Tintin as the nickname. I haven't discover any males of the Philippines whose name is Tintin... maybe on my future son someday.

Tintin means boys penis in Japanese.

Not only in Japanese, my friend. Even here in the Philippines. The Visayans, to be precise. they call the male sensitive part as "tintin," too. So...I assume that the Dreamworks' promoters will be having their hard time explaining (or defending, perhaps) Tintin's name and his movie title to 'some of my narrow-minded fellas'.

I've read somewhere that, for the French, "Tintin" is like the sound of the clanging of cups when a toast is made.

To me, it is like the sound of a small bell.

Sometimes, we (in Puerto Rico) might use these syllables to sound out a tune, like tin tin tin...

I know someone who is Chinese (also a Tintin fan!) and I asked him what Tintin meant in Chinese, and he told me that in Chinese it could mean almost anything.

I looked up my Irish dictionary just to make sure but alas there's no word, the closest is thintean, pronounced "hin-tawn" meaning fireplace.

My native Spaniard teacher, when I told him to call me "Tintin", said that in Spanish it meant something like the sound of clanging tableware.

And as was mentioned before, for Japanese people who can't pronounce "TI" but instead say "CHI", it means "penis". This got me into some embarrassing situations in Japan :( But not all Japanese people have difficulty saying it. I've been told by some that Tintin is a cute name!

In my mom's dialect (Bisaya) it means small penis (otin for regular size).

"Tintin" is a singular genitive case of the word "tintti".
"Tintti" is a name of a group of birds, tits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_%28bird%29
And of course the language is Finnish in my case.

"Tintin" means in English "tit's" or "of a tit".