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Squid Game subtitles 'change meaning' of Netflix show
- TMWNN 5y agoFrom the article: >"The dialogue was so well written and zero of it was preserved [in the subtitles]," Youngmi said in a Twitter post. >In a TikTok video that's had almost nine million views, Youngmi gave several examples of mistranslation. >In one scene a character tries to convince people to play the game with her, and the closed-caption subtitles read: "I'm not a genius, but I still got it worked out." >But what the character actually says, Youngmi explains, is: "I am very smart, I just never got a chance to study." [...] >Youngmi has since clarified that the English language subtitles are "substantially better" than the [automatically generated] closed-caption ones.
- glanzwulf 5y agoHopefully the massive popularity will help bring light to this issue as it's not just Squid Game, it's a much bigger problem as localization issues are widespread in all sorts of media. I am fluent in three languages and watch international content with subtitles at home so that my wife can enjoy the content too, and from my experience, Netflix is one of the worst culprits at this. If I had to guess I'd say they hire the cheapest translation company available who then outsources their work on fiverr.