Lemmy users what are some things translators do that absolutely infuriate you ? (lemm.ee)

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[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Or when the character is bilingual but the subtitle just says: [speaking a foreign language]

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

[Untranslated Wookiee speech]

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Zoe: swears in Chinese

Subtitle: "[SPEAKS GALACTIC LANGUAGE]"

FU, everyone knows that that's a real language and probably a very juicy phrase that would be absolute golden to know for some other occasion!

^(PSA there exists a site with every phrase translated and explained)

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

site with every phrase translated

Because Mandarin?

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Well yeah it's mandarin, but in the show Mandarin is pretty exclusively used for very creative swear phrases, such as "The explosive diarrhea of an elephant". Things that might be fun to learn to say...

See: https://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net/

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