http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/the-silent-tiger-duck/ A blog mostly about language Sun, 19 May 2013 01:00:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/the-silent-tiger-duck/#comment-39662 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:51:59 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=12154#comment-39662 I don’t understand why you need to comment on the gender of Tigerente? There absolutely nothing special about it. It’s a duck with tiger stripes, so ‘tiger’ refers to the stripes, not to the duck being a tiger as well.
I just read the story about Panama to my son this morning (in Berlin). He actually never talks about the tigerente when remembering the story, but only about the tiger and the bear. I guess that ‘her’ popularity is the result of her being unconventional and sweet at the same time.
By the way, the name ‘Janosch’ itself is Hungarian.

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