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I mean... The first one wouldn't be confusing, if it was plainly called Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech. So a Norwegian interpreter - who has no obligation to know
by JAlexoid 3y ago
I mean... The first one wouldn't be confusing, if it was plainly called Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech.
So a Norwegian interpreter - who has no obligation to know of Lincoln whatsoever - can read it and reasonably interpret it as a request for an address in Gettysburg, for Mr Lincoln.
- OfSanguineFire 3y ago> who has no obligation to know of Lincoln whatsoever Part of being a decent translator is having a knowledge of the common cultural references of the source-language’s country/countries. Films very frequently generally play on local history or previous films or literature, and you are expected to be able to deal with that.
- lb1lf 3y agoI suspect it was an early attempt at machine translation, or perhaps that the translators are paid so bad there is no incentive to pause even for a moment to evaluate if the translation makes sense in context.
- actionfromafar 3y agoThe problem is what you don't know you don't know. If your understanding is lacking, how do you know you're not watching a movie veering into the absurd?
- reaperducer 3y agoThe first one wouldn't be confusing, if it was plainly called Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech. Do you seriously not know that a speech is an "address?"
- tapland 3y agoThe translator apparently did not, and it would probably have been fine if it was actually called Speach. that was the entire point of the comment