Re: Floppies

From	John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Floppies
Date	2025-09-29 08:23 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 27 Sep 2025 13:22:33 GMT
Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:

> > sometimes coincidence
> > or shared linguistic heritage hands you an easy one,  
> 
> Of course, French, Italian and Spanish are closely related to each
> other. English is related even if less closely. But Japanese and
> Chinese aren't. So sometimes, a translation from French to Spanish
> would be easy. From french to English would be more difficult and
> from French to Japanese or Chinese would be impossible.

Even in very different languages, translators can get lucky. There's an
early storyline in Ranma 1/2 where the female lead's hair gets sheared
off during a fight between two of the other characters, and the author
got in a shameless pun on "kega wa nakute" (she wasn't injured) and "ke
ga nakunatta" (she lost her hair.) The staff for the English release,
happily, were able to preserve it:

"At least she wasn't injured."
"Yeah, but she sure got a bad cut!"

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Re: Floppies Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-09-27 13:22 +0000
  Re: Floppies John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-09-29 08:23 -0700
    Translations in movies and such "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-29 19:29 +0200
    Re: Floppies Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-10-04 09:52 +0000
      Re: Floppies Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-10-04 09:18 -0700

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