This reminds me, it's actually very interesting how English movies get translated into Korean and vice versa, since the nuances mentioned in the article are hard to translate / convey in the other language.
In Tamatoa's musical number in Moana, he spontaneously breaks into French for a single line of his song, "c'est la vie, mon ami". This is not expected to cause problems for English-speaking audiences.
I thought it was interesting to see how foreign language dubs handled that line. Sometimes they translate the French into the dub language as if it had just been English like the rest of the song. Sometimes they leave it as French. I don't remember any that translate it into a language that isn't the language of the dub, but also isn't French.
(Of particular note, the French dub leaves the line as "untranslated" French.)
Something that feels similar to me is the treatment of the Italian brothers in Lady and the Tramp. In the English original, they are jovial immigrants from Italy who operate an Italian restaurant and speak English in a very thick Italian accent.
This cultural concept translated better into some foreign languages than others. In the French dub, the brothers are jovial immigrants from Italy who operate an Italian restaurant and speak French in a very thick Italian accent.
People always tell me that watching English dubbed anime isn't good because it loses the nuance of the Japanese language, in similar ways, though I don't speak/read Japanese so I'm either going to be listening to it in English or reading the subs in English. I know I'm going to be losing subtle nuance either way but I've never been good at learning languages
I'm guessing because of "neo" being rude
Sadly for the dad joke, the eo in 너 "neo" is a single vowel that sounds more like English "u" or "o", as in Seoul.
This reminds me, it's actually very interesting how English movies get translated into Korean and vice versa, since the nuances mentioned in the article are hard to translate / convey in the other language.
In Tamatoa's musical number in Moana, he spontaneously breaks into French for a single line of his song, "c'est la vie, mon ami". This is not expected to cause problems for English-speaking audiences.
I thought it was interesting to see how foreign language dubs handled that line. Sometimes they translate the French into the dub language as if it had just been English like the rest of the song. Sometimes they leave it as French. I don't remember any that translate it into a language that isn't the language of the dub, but also isn't French.
(Of particular note, the French dub leaves the line as "untranslated" French.)
Something that feels similar to me is the treatment of the Italian brothers in Lady and the Tramp. In the English original, they are jovial immigrants from Italy who operate an Italian restaurant and speak English in a very thick Italian accent.
This cultural concept translated better into some foreign languages than others. In the French dub, the brothers are jovial immigrants from Italy who operate an Italian restaurant and speak French in a very thick Italian accent.
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People always tell me that watching English dubbed anime isn't good because it loses the nuance of the Japanese language, in similar ways, though I don't speak/read Japanese so I'm either going to be listening to it in English or reading the subs in English. I know I'm going to be losing subtle nuance either way but I've never been good at learning languages
'Mr. Anderson', c'mon (when the big bad referring 'The one', 'Neo')
Movie with agent Smith as a good guy and a protagonist would be very amusing :)