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That is very generous. Looking at Swedish subtitles of Hollywood movies I often cringe at idioms translated word by word rather than to common Swedish equivalen
by Agentlien 6y ago
That is very generous. Looking at Swedish subtitles of Hollywood movies I often cringe at idioms translated word by word rather than to common Swedish equivalents. These make no sense if you don't happen to know the English already.
When watching dubbed things (which in Swedish means exclusively children's shows) I often hear things which make little sense until I suddenly realise there's an English sentence with similar structure that would make sense in this context.
edit: In other words, translations often fail to make sense when poorly done, and a lot of them are.
- narag 6y agoIn Spanish, most of the excesive literal translations happened 50 or 100 years ago, so they're part of the language now. Noboby blinks when somebody says "my name is" translated word by word. It used to be extremely unnatural. Sometimes I enable English subtitles keeping the dubbed Spanish audio and it's often well done. There is very talented people working on the translations, giving the right tone to conversations.