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I 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! (

by moomin 10y ago

I 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.