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** Perhaps its because the Baron is multilingual and Pinocchio speaks English because Disney made people think of him as an English speaking charachter. Sinbad and Job, despite having translated stories, have their ethnicity as core aspects of their charachter so people think of them as foreign, while Pinocchio's nationality isn't that important to him.
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** Maybe Tom is more familiar with the stories of Pinocchio, the Scot and Munchhausen, and never really paid much attention to Sinbad and Job. Maybe because of that he is able to understand those 3 in the story world and not Sinbad and Job?
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* When Tom is inside the whale's belly, why is it that Sinbad and Job are speaking in their native tongues, thus making Tom unable to understand them, but Baron von Münchhausen and Pinocchio are speaking in English, instead of German and Italian? The explanation can't be that Tom knows German and Italian and we're just dealing with TranslationConvention, since Münchhausen, Pinocchio, and the Scottish fellow are also able to understand each other. The Baron probably knows English, but it seems unlikely that Pinocchio would. The whole thing takes place inside a story, so why not have everyone speak in English, since the stories of all these characters have been translated into that language?
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* When Tom is inside the whale's belly, why is it that Sinbad and Job are speaking in their native tongues, thus making Tom unable to understand them, but Baron von Münchhausen and Pinocchio are speaking in English, instead of German and Italian? The explanation can't be that Tom knows German and Italian and we're just dealing with TranslationConvention, since Münchhausen, Pinocchio, and the Scottish fellow are also able to understand each other. The Baron probably knows English, but it seems unlikely that Pinocchio would. The whole thing takes place inside a story, the "story world", so why not have everyone speak in English, since the stories of all these characters have been translated into that language?
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* When Tom is inside the whale's belly, why is it that Sinbad and Job are speaking in their native tongues, thus making Tom unable to understand them, but Baron von Münchhausen and Pinocchio are speaking in English, instead of German and Italian? The explanation can't be that Tom knows German and Italian and we're just dealing with TranslationConvention, since Münchhausen, Pinocchio, and the Scottish fellow are also able to understand each other. The Baron probably knows English, but it seems unlikely that Pinocchio would. The whole thing takes place inside a story, so why not have everyone speak English, since the stories of all these characters have been translated into English?
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* When Tom is inside the whale's belly, why is it that Sinbad and Job are speaking in their native tongues, thus making Tom unable to understand them, but Baron von Münchhausen and Pinocchio are speaking in English, instead of German and Italian? The explanation can't be that Tom knows German and Italian and we're just dealing with TranslationConvention, since Münchhausen, Pinocchio, and the Scottish fellow are also able to understand each other. The Baron probably knows English, but it seems unlikely that Pinocchio would. The whole thing takes place inside a story, so why not have everyone speak in English, since the stories of all these characters have been translated into English?that language?
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* When Tom is inside the whale's belly, why is it that Sinbad and Job are speaking in their native tongues, thus making Tom unable to understand them, but Baron von Münchhausen and Pinocchio are speaking in English, instead of German and Italian? The explanation can't be that Tom knows German and Italian and we're just dealing with TranslationConvention, since Münchhausen, Pinocchio, and the Scottish fellow are also able to understand each other. The Baron probably knows English, but it seems unlikely that Pinocchio would. The whole thing takes place inside a story, so why not have everyone speak English, since the stories of all these characters have been translated into English?
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