Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 06, 2010
April 05, 2010
April 07, 2010
Transcript:
Havoc: Tell me more about this "Red Rascal." Man: My source reports he is revered in the countryside... terrifying the Taliban by night... playing video games by day. Havoc: It's him. Man: Whoever he is, his legend grows by the hour.
Clearly, Chikuku, ‘sorkh’ is red and ‘razil’ is rascal (really ‘worthless’) in Dari. But pity that Trudeau didn’t look beyond the words in the dictionary. ‘razil-e sorkh’ would at least have felt like Dari.