The Two Towers Captions - in Engrish* (Literature / Poetry)

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The Two Towers Captions - in Engrish*

Thread poster: Ildiko Santana

Ildiko Santana

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Feb 1, 2003

I wasn\'t sure where to post this. The other option could have been under the \"lighter side of translation,\" but since I can\'t really see this as a source of amusement, and I do consider Tolkien\'s works literature at its finest, I\'ve chosen this thread. I hope you\'ll forgive me.

Please take time to browse this site:

http://home.online.no/~gremmem/engrish_ttt_captions/

Highlights - caption first, original in [..]:

\"Follow you fools\" [Fly, you fools!]

\"the one place in the middle of the earth we don\'t want to see\" [The one place in Middle-Earth we don\'t want to see any closer]

\"the trace of Mr Fodo full lost\" [Let\'s face it Mr. Frodo, we\'re lost]

\"You gonna pick it up or what?\" [You could have picked a better spot]

\"Very strong rive\" [Release the river!]

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* \"Engrish is a slang term which refers to an English language phrase that arose through poor translation of another language (usually Japanese) into English, or sometimes, poor translation of English into another language followed by good translation back into English. This used to be a frequent occurrence with product manuals, which might say something like \"to make speed up find up out document\", but it\'s less frequent today. Another source of poor translation is an unchecked machine-produced translation, such as that from the Babelfish service.\" ▲ Collapse

Guenther Danzer

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I was on that site and

Feb 1, 2003

I can\'t stop

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Martine Etienne

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what a pitty!

Feb 1, 2003

I have read and seen book and film and find it desastrous for the author.

Martine

Silvina Beatriz Codina

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Logical consequence

Feb 1, 2003

You get bootleg copy... you get Engrish translation

murat Karahan

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I've seen worse engrish than that

Feb 1, 2003

The only thing I can think of is that they\'ve used speech-to-text software and then used the unedited or partially edited version. This seems very illogical too because the Combined Dialogue Lists and Combined Subtitling/Spotting Lists of major movies are prepared month before the release of the movie and generally delivered to subtitling/captioning companies as word or pdf documents. Still, it\'s a good laugh.

Roomy Naqvy

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Wonderful, Ildiko

Feb 2, 2003

This was just wonderful, Ildiko. Greatly appreciated. Let\'s have more wonderful contributions for this forum.
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Rossana Triaca

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Feb 3, 2003

There are quite a lot of hideous translations from the Fellowship of the Ring and now from The Two Towers, and I\'m not referring to the divx subtitles (which is quite understandable), but from original releases. One that got into headlines was the japanese version of the FOTR... really sad.

Alas, it\'s undoubtely worthwhile to learn a language just to read certain works.

Cheers,

Rossana

[Edited at 2006-02-07 06:41]

Ildiko Santana

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[off?] good point!

Feb 3, 2003

it\'s undoubtely worthwhile to learn a language just to read certain works

I originally started learning (ie self-taught) English so I could understand the Beatles and Pink Floyd lyrics.... ;D

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