 Whereas Hergé 's use of Chinese in The Blue Lotus was correct , the Arabic script employed in The Crab with the Golden Claws was intentionally fictitious . Many of the place names featured in the series are puns : the town of Kefheir was a pun on the French Que faire ? ( " what is to be done ? " ) while the port of Bagghar derives from the French baggare ( scrape , or fight ) . The name of Omar ben Salaad is a pun meaning " Lobster Salad " in French . 
 Whereas Hergé <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>use of Chinese in The Blue Lotus was correct , the Arabic script employed in The Crab with the Golden Claws was intentionally fictitious . Many of the place names featured in the series are puns : the town of Kefheir was a pun on the French Que faire ? ( " what is to be done ? " ) while the port of Bagghar <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>derives</mark></a> from the French baggare ( scrape , or fight ) . The name of Omar ben Salaad <a href='drop_aux' title='3'><mark>is</mark></a>a pun meaning " Lobster Salad " in French . 
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