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Oh, I think you cannot watch a single movie or show in my country without encountering some translation errors. Idioms seem to be the most common source of mist
by rimliu 8y ago
Oh, I think you cannot watch a single movie or show in my country without encountering some translation errors. Idioms seem to be the most common source of mistakes, together with some missed cultural references and misunderstood slang.
I guess you get what you pay for.
I remember about 20 years back when I was studying for my MS in astrophysics we got a call from the translator who wanted to make sure that he got some trivial thing right. As you can tell I was so impressed with his attitude to remember that two decades later. That makes it even more baffling today, when translators do not even try despite having Google and Wikipedia always available.
- Mediterraneo10 8y agoThe problem is that doing research on Google and Wikipedia takes time, and your client is only paying you so much money. I think that the translators who are most likely to get obscure idioms or references right are those who are fortunate to be married to a bookish speaker of the source language, who can very quickly advise on these issues without the translator having to go off on a long search of the web.