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It's not like it's mindless drudgery either. Losing as little as possible in translation while fitting within the constraints of subtitles (people can only read
by wongarsu 2y ago
It's not like it's mindless drudgery either. Losing as little as possible in translation while fitting within the constraints of subtitles (people can only read so fast) can be very challenging. And decent dubbing tries to approximately match the mouth movements, which puts further constraints on the translation and often requires creative text changes.
There is a point about industry size (not that many countries dub all their movies), but it is one of the intellectually more challenging professions.
- Kiro 2y agoTranslation work is often associated with horrible working conditions and poor pay. It definitely fits OP's description of "jobs that crush the human spirit into oblivion." This might not be the case if you're a renowned translator of famous literature, but that is not representative of the majority of translators.
- numpad0 2y agoIt takes a fluent, language specific bilingual with domain knowledge just to verify work. That's a high skilled job. It's just massively underappreciated because (same).