Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdchema.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!wjh12!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdchema!gino From: gino@sdchema.UUCP Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Asterix Message-ID: <217@sdchema.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 08:24:33 EDT Article-I.D.: sdchema.217 Posted: Mon Aug 20 08:24:33 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 03:09:53 EDT Organization: U.C. San Diego Chemistry Dept Lines: 16 I thought I might pass on a tidbit I picked up this weekend. I was visiting with a young woman from France, and I casually mentioned Asterix. She said that she liked it, and that everyone was wild about it in France, but that she could not understand how the plays on words could be translated. All that to the side, the most interesting thing she said was that the Asterix books are used as textbooks in introductory course in social economics, and other things. Apparently some of the concepts presented in Asterix are so clean and simple, that they are very easy to teach from. Thought you might be amused GINO!