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This has been noticeable, companies are trying to hire translators en-masse, often low quality ones with shitty pay. Lately I am seeing more and more media wit
by speeder 5y ago
This has been noticeable, companies are trying to hire translators en-masse, often low quality ones with shitty pay.
Lately I am seeing more and more media with absolutely awful translations, not just streaming, but games and whatnot too.
Things we have now:
1. Serious translation studios that hired several political activists that will happily butcher the original script to fit their worldview.
2. A ton of freelancer translations that work for low pay, often fixing machine-translated scritps, and do a crap job overall.
3. More serious translators but that don't have time and pay to actually know what the subject is about so they just plop down a more literal translation, often with weird results as words with multiple possible translation might end with the version that makes no sense in the context.
Some exmaples past few weeks from what I saw in media:
1. more than once I saw media that the translation was forcibly shifted toward left-wing politics OR had all sexual references removed and/or towned down, sometimes both.
2. I saw both games, movies and series released recently that not only had the usual errors, but had outright missing letters, mojibake (yep! never expected to see mojibake in modern media, how people make that mistake?), phrases that someone obviously pasted from another document but selected it wrong and thus is missing parts of it and so on.
3. Was watching "Last Kingdom" yesterday, noticed translators weren't sure how to translate some things and in each episode the translation of some specific words or phrases changed, sometimes more literal, sometimes less, but wildly inconsistant.