What idiots did the subtitles on the DVD?

POSTED BY: Mantichorus
UPDATED: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 17:30
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Originally posted by annik:
Well, lots of shows provide scripts for the captioning. For those of us who watch everything with CC on, it's amazing at how often what is actually said on the show is different than what the script originally said. Working from the script is imperfect.

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I'd imagine that another problem is that a given show might have more than one team doing the captions --one team does, say, episodes 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9, while the other team does 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. This would save time and allow the shows to be put out on schedule.

If they only have one copy of the script, then the captions from one team will reflect that, while the others use "sound-alikes" or [speaking chinese] tags.

As an example: in the Gundam Wing dub, one character alternates between being named "Quatre" (his "proper" name, given the numerical motif in the other names [Quatre = four, Duo = two, Trowa = three, Yuy = one, Wufei = five, etc]) and being called "Katra" (apparently because one of the two dubbers [ A ] doesn't know about the name-pattern and [ B ] may or may not be familiar with Star Trek [Katra = the Vulcan word for soul]).

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The funniest Dansih subtitle goof I've seen (don't remember the show) was when they translated "He's a Vietnam vet" into "He's a Vietnamese veterinarian".

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Wasn't it Tracy who uttered the famous ' You're a rabbit, Mal!" line ?

The scene just after Tracy has been shot, and he's taken Kaylee as hostage/cover and is trying to leave the ship.


Zoe: Wash?
Wash: Ow?!

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Nope, Jayne said it when offering Mal vera in OMR.

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"BADGER: You think you're better than other people.
MAL: Just the ones I'm better than." -Shindig.
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"MAL: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous.
SIMON: Yes, I'm very proud." -Safe.

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Originally posted by Mantichorus:
And another- Safe: "MAL: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous."

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Subtitles say: "The town's real..." My double take at that was nearly as good as Simon's own blank expression!

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That's it! Thanks, man.

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"BADGER: You think you're better than other people.
MAL: Just the ones I'm better than." -Shindig.
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"MAL: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous.
SIMON: Yes, I'm very proud." -Safe.

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It was a sad day for me when TPTB figured out that people could still catch all the cussin' from "Jerry Springer" and "Maury" by watching the CC ... now they actually *caption* the bleep as a *bleep*!!

I used to watch all kinds of funky Chinese movies not really intended for English audiences. Clearly, the English subtitler wasn't too proficient in English in many cases ... my friends and I would be rolling around on the floor hurting at some of the word choices!

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

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How about in 'Trash'...When Mal says YoSaffBridge the captioning says "Chinese" !!!
laughed my arse off at that

"Haven't you killed me enough for one day ?"
- Mal, War Stories

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Originally posted by annik:
It was a sad day for me when TPTB figured out that people could still catch all the cussin' from "Jerry Springer" and "Maury" by watching the CC ... now they actually *caption* the bleep as a *bleep*!!

I used to watch all kinds of funky Chinese movies not really intended for English audiences. Clearly, the English subtitler wasn't too proficient in English in many cases ... my friends and I would be rolling around on the floor hurting at some of the word choices!

Cheers,
Annik

Sounds like you're talking Hong Kong there. They paid the subtitler something like $50 to do the entire movie, still do as far as I know--it wasn't necessarily a lack of language proficiency but the need to work very, very, very fast. Did I include enough verys?

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