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Any multilingual person that consumes foreign media targeted at the local market knows that official subtitles are hit-and-miss, sometimes writing down somethin
by estebank 10y ago
Any multilingual person that consumes foreign media targeted at the local market knows that official subtitles are hit-and-miss, sometimes writing down something that sounds the same, but it's not (where/were) and in some cases even reversing the meaning of the sentence. Fansubs, on the other hand, if they are for popular media they have outstanding work poured into them, and when it is for niche media they might be slightly lower quality, but in those cases official subtitles are not available at all in the first place.
- moomin 10y agoI remember watching Alien 3 at the cinema with French subtitles: Audio: She's down in there with the beast! Subtitles: She's down in there with the priest! (Weirdly, beast and priest sound much the same in French, too.) Or when watching Neverending Story the turtle says "one thousand miles". The subtitles convert this to kilometres with 6 decimal places showing.
- kmm 10y ago> (Weirdly, beast and priest sound much the same in French, too.) Not that weirdly :) "beast" and "priest" are loanwords from the Old French "beste" and "prestre". They then both went through sound changes. English changed the /ɛ/ in both words to a /i/, and in French, the /s/ disappeared.
- jacobush 10y agoActually Swedish fansubs tend to have horrible quality, probably because many downloading savvy people in Sweden do just fine without subtitles (for English movies). And those that do need subtitles try (sometimes with tragi-comical results) to help themselves...