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One great example of that was how in some later Sims game (2 or 3), one of the actions possible on a bonsai tree in the Swedish version is "Katrinplommon", tran
by Legogris 7y ago
One great example of that was how in some later Sims game (2 or 3), one of the actions possible on a bonsai tree in the Swedish version is "Katrinplommon", translated from "prune" - unfortunately, prune as in a dried plum, not the pruning of plants.
- elygre 7y agoAh, nice! I guess all languages have legions of these. In Norway, dell sold computers with “brannkabel”, or “burn cable” [1]. [1] IEEE 1394 — FireWire.
- toyg 7y agoConsidering the eventual hackability of Firewire, maybe the translation was prescient... you’re gonna get burnt by that cable!
- ejolto 7y agoThat makes no sense in context of Norwegian as "get burnt by" is an English idiom. Closest Norwegian equivalent to getting burnt I can think of is "å få lang nese" which translates into "to get a long nose", e.g. you get a long nose when someone tricks you. So in that case the cable should be called IEEE 1394 — LongNose. Translation is difficult..
- jimnotgym 7y agoWould it be normal to not translate these into languages that share the Latin alphabet at least?
- rags2riches 7y agoIn English most nouns can also be a verb, or vice versa, without the word changing at all. In some ways it is a feature, but it also leads to terrible outcomes like this. Words like "comment" and "reply" are often translated without context to the wrong class of word.