# "The Flintstones" In Other Languages **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flintstones-in-other-languages/529469 "2010-02-18T15:18:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flintstones-in-other-languages/529469/21 "2010-02-18T19:39:08Z")
Movie star _Rock Quarry_ still makes me smile, as well as the “Bug Music” — “I said ya ya ya, She said ya ya ya, We said ya ya ya, AAAHHHH” ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flintstones-in-other-languages/529469/22 "2010-02-18T21:22:23Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > At the end of the first syllable, my tounge is pressing against the front of the roof of my mouth as if I’m about to pronounce the _t_, but then I segue right to the _s_ from there without pulling back to finish the _t_. The result is neither “Flint-stone” nor “Flynnstone,” but kind of somewhere in between. YMMV. Yeah, it’s a voiceless “t”. I usually don’t voice the “t” in the word “it”, in something like: What is it? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flintstones-in-other-languages/529469/23 "2010-02-18T21:35:10Z")
I dated a Brit named Martin for a while – when I asked him why he didn’t pronounce the “r” in his name, he asked me why I didn’t pronounce the “t.” I didn’t have a good answer for that. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flintstones-in-other-languages/529469/24 "2010-02-19T01:24:38Z")
Apparently in Chinese it was called 摩登原始人 (something like “Modern Primitive People”) and all the names were transliterated into Chinese characters that sounded like the English names (Fred became “fu lai de” Wilma became “wei er ma”) . For anyone who’s wondering, “Yabba Dabba Do” was 呀吧哒吧嘟. I can just picture millions of Chinese kids scouring their Xinhua Chubanshe English-Chinese Dictionary for the meaning of that one… ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flintstones-in-other-languages/529469/25 "2010-02-19T02:53:46Z")
If you want to listen to the Quebec French version of the intro : [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N27kiAp8NsA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N27kiAp8NsA) ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flintstones-in-other-languages/529469/26 "2010-02-19T03:21:06Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I dated a Brit named Martin for a while – when I asked him why he didn’t pronounce the “r” in his name, he asked me why I didn’t pronounce the “t.” > > I didn’t have a good answer for that. So which “t” don’t you pronounce? Do you say “Wickster” or “Twickser”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flintstones-in-other-languages/529469/27 "2010-02-19T03:49:17Z")
> [@detop](#): > > If you want to listen to the Quebec French version of the intro : [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N27kiAp8NsA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N27kiAp8NsA) I’ve never seen a cartoon show pictures of the voice actors like that. Were those actors particularly famous, or is that just the way it’s done in some areas? ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flintstones-in-other-languages/529469/28 "2010-02-19T06:20:31Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > I’ve never seen a cartoon show pictures of the voice actors like that. Were those actors particularly famous, or is that just the way it’s done in some areas? I’ll have to dig deep in my memory, after all it was translated over 40 years ago. As I recall, Berval and Michaud were fairly popular, Miller was better known for stage work, Proulx I don’t recall at all. I think it was because they were among the first to do a local adaptation of a famous TV show. ---
**Author:** ![Nathan\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Nathan\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nathan_S)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flintstones-in-other-languages/529469/29 "2010-02-19T12:21:12Z")
In Italy the cartoon is called “Gli Antenati” (“The Ancestors”). Most of the principal characters’ names in English have been maintained, though the Italian pronunciation is of course somewhat different. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flintstones-in-other-languages/529469/30 "2010-02-19T17:01:33Z")
> [@D18](#): > > So which “t” don’t you pronounce? Do you say “Wickster” or “Twickser”? > > 😃 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flintstones-in-other-languages/529469.md?page=1)