Translations in movies and such

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Translations in movies and such
Date	2025-09-29 19:29 +0200
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On 2025-09-29 17:23, John Ames wrote:
> 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!"

There is a bad one in Game of Thrones, when Hodor finally says "hold the 
door". The translators had not been told of this in advance and they 
could not name the character appropriately from the start, nor do a good 
play of words when we learned the reason of that word.

Lots of virtual ink spilled on this issue.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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  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
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