Completely tangential, but the comments here remind me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_translations_of_Asterix https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englis

Completely tangential, but the comments here remind me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_translations_of_Asterix https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_translations_of_Aste... Lots of interesting stuff of translating jokes and references into a foreign language