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My vote is for Russian. You know that scene at the end of Rocky IV, after Rocky wins the match and makes a speech, and the match announcer translates each sent
by tpoacher 5y ago
My vote is for Russian.
You know that scene at the end of Rocky IV, after Rocky wins the match and makes a speech, and the match announcer translates each sentence in Russian?
There's a point in that speech where Rocky seems to say a really long sentence, and then the announcer seems to translate the whole thing in, like, 3 syllables.
I always thought it was some kind of joke, as if the announcer decided most of that stuff wasn't that important to translate and decided to just skip to the gist of it.
It wasn't until I learned a bit of russian myself that I realised it was an honest-to-God translation of the whole thing, and it's just that Russian can be super-efficient sometimes.
- openknot 5y agoThis reminds me of the anecdote by Jimmy Carter about a Japanese translator doing what your initial impression described for a joke spoken in English. [0] [0] https://vimeo.com/36578569 https://vimeo.com/36578569