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Old 02-23-2020, 07:39 AM   #67
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Personally, what I love about watching most subtitled movies is the sheer amusement from the (mis)translations. At times, I wonder if the major qualification for translating subtitles is not being fluent in either language. Some of this is due to trying to translate idioms but some seems more like trying to make sense out of a machine translation.

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It's always amusing to watch one of the subtitled martial arts movies, when one of the characters says something in English and see how it's translated in the subtitle.
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