Q161: Grammar

There is a grammar mistake that can be seen in four volumes. Could be considered technically not a mistake but since the setting should be regarded as a mistake. Is a proper name that is supposed to be from a culture of the world but happens to be from another culture of the world. the mistake is always the same and never changes in all the four volumes

What is the mistake and in which volumes appears?

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Firstly, Tintin in America, is there a desert with grass?! (Upps, i don't have the page number) Secondly was Prisoners Of The Sun; Is there snow on a mountain in Peru? It's common sense. I may try again as these two are the only ones I thought. Better Read somemore.

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Well, is not a sentence but a proper name.

some of the books that appears are The Seven Crystal Balls and Tintin and The Picaros

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Hmm, your mention of Seven Crystal Balls and Picaros makes me wonder if I should be looking at Alcazar/San Theodoros-related things, and your clue about the grammatical error concerning a proper name makes me wonder if you're refering to the way that San Theodoros's capital sometimes changes its name from Las Dopicos to Los Dopicos.

On page 16 of The Broken Ear the captain of The Ville de Lyon calls it Las Dopicos. But the heading on the letter tintin gets on page 17 reads: Ministry of Justice, Los Dopicos. Then the faked letter given to the ship's captain on page 19 refers to Las Dopicos again. And on page 1 of Tintin and the Picaros, Tintin refers to Los Dopicos (as the former name of what is by then called Tapiocapolis).

However, I don't speak Spanish so I don't know if Dopicos means anything, or if Las would be more or less grammatically correct than Los or if it makes no difference. And anyway, now that I check, I can't find any direct references to the city in the two Alcazar-featuring books, The Seven Crystal Balls & The Red Sea Sharks, nor in any other, so since your question asks for an error which occurs in four Tintin books, maybe this isn't what you're after at all. But that's my best guess!

Edit: Having just re-read your original question, I'm pretty sure my Los-Las answer doesn't fit what you're looking for. Never mind!

Au Contraire Balthazar, you are in something

Hi

Take a look at the statue of general Oliveira (The Broken Ear, page 30). He is "Libertador de San Teodoro", so the name of the country seems to be San Teodoro in the statue and elsewhere it is San Theodoros, like in The Seven Crystal Balls pg. 13, in The Picaros pg. 2, in The Broken Ear pg. 17 in The Red Sea Sharks pg. 9.

Did you mean this, maxmordon?

Hi

Take a look at the statue of general Oliveira (The Broken Ear, page 30). He is "Libertador de San Teodoro", so the name of the country seems to be San Teodoro in the statue and elsewhere it is San Theodoros, like in The Seven Crystal Balls pg. 13, in The Picaros pg. 2, in The Broken Ear pg. 17 in The Red Sea Sharks pg. 9.

Did you mean this, maxmordon?


Yes! Triumph for you!

The country is supossed to be from Spanish origin but the name Theodoros is in fact Greek! the actual version of the name Theodore in Spanish is Teodoro. Ergo, the name of the country should be San Teodoro if was named after Saint Theodore

Another 'grammar' mistake can be found in those four volumes: Alcazar's very name, the correct spelling of which is Alcázar in Spanish, namely with an acute accent on its first 'a', contrary to both English and original versions.

see http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=alcazar
for Spanish version see http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Alc%C3%A1zar

You are true yamilah; that was another answer. According to the rules it has a top of 3 correct answers

If there be a second place medal I would give you