Otto Waalkes is very happy: his comic elephant Ottifant has made it into the dictionary.
The comic elephant by comedian Otto Waalkes (74) has made it into the Duden, the German spelling dictionary. That makes the inventor of the little Ottifant extremely proud, as he shows.
Otto: “Staaark – my Ottifant is now in the dictionary!”
For a screenshot of he writes: “Staaark – my Ottifant is now in the dictionary!” As befits a comedian, he garnishes the message with a joke. Because it goes on to say: “Now I can always read how to spell and pronounce it correctly, where it actually comes from and even what its genitive is like. I didn’t even know that it had a genitive – he never showed it to me.” . With his famous “Holdrio” he concludes his message to the almost 390,000 followers.
The fans are happy for Waalkes. Under the post they joke “…I’m just missing an Ottifant Emoji”, “Why am I hearing your voice while reading” or “Only now?”. Another user writes admiringly: “Now you could (please not) retire. That’s all you can do. Come up with a word and get it included in the dictionary. Awesome”.
Otto drew the cute pachyderms when he was still at school: “They brought me sandwiches for a few good Ottifanten drawings. My mother always made funny ones that didn’t taste good,” the Emden native is quoted as saying.
Source: Stern
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