Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 24

Quoting Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:

>  --- Andreas Johansson skrzypszy:
>
> > I strongly suspect that no-one can guess what Telenzh _zepo^n_
> > [z@'po:n] "armed" is ultimately a distortion of. It does, however,
> > actually retain two of the letters of the original word.
>
> The only thing that just doesn't stop coming to my mind here is
> "Stallone". But
> that's probably not what you are after. ZEP or ZEPO perhaps (the
> Syldavian and
> Bordurian secret police in Tintin?)?
None of those is even remotely close ...

Anyways, the Bordurian secret police is called ZEPO? Did Herge know of the
Swedish SÄPO, perhaps?

                                          Andreas