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How do you spell Kaanga?

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narfstar:

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There is, don't forget, the possibility that they intentionally changed it.  Most people who recognize it would recognize it as a German thing, after all, and that may not play well.
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Interesting point

JonTheScanner:
In the 50s, I'd be surprised if most literate people in the US wouldn't recognize an umlaut from the word co'o'peration (see how lazy I am).  I recall it being written that was a lot.  Would kids who read the comics?  Who knows, but they wouldn't care if it were intentionally changed either. I don't imagine.  They probably called him that K-Tarzan guy anyway  :-)

JVJ (RIP):
Download Ka'a'nga #1 and 3, guys, and compare the graphic logo rendition on the cover with the treatment of the name in the stories inside. Also, note that there IS a Kaanga text story in issue #1 and there is no marks on either of the "a"s. The treatment of the second
"a" in the interior logos of #3 varies, too. I still maintain that the 'a' treatment of the Ka'a'nga comic logo is a graphic and not an intentional change that was applied across the titles and stories in which the character appeared.

I agree, Jon, that no one probably noticed or cared about the change, one would think that the publisher would have liked to have had SOME consistency. One would be wrong, it seems.

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LargoWinch:
Interesting.

I never gave it a second thought and always mentally pronounced it Ka-anga to reflect the dieresis.

Then again ... so's my name afflicted with the same pronounciation.

Michaël

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