But when theres a technical word that you could easily look up, its insane to me that the translator decides to just guess what it might be.
A friend of mine used to translate subtitles as a part time job while being a student and I can assure you that he wasn’t paid anywhere close enough to waste any time at all on looking up anything he didn’t readily know.
[…] looks like they’ve seen an iPhone
What does that mean?
Luckily movie theatres in Switzerland and Belgium regularly show foreign movies with original soundtrack and French subtitles for all who prefer it that way.
My experience is that most subtitles in most languages are all generally rather poor and I haven’t really encountered any general quality differences between different languages, but quite noticable quality differences between different kinds of publishers.
Perhaps not surprising, some of the best subtitles I’ve ever read have been fansubs published for free by enthusiasts on the internet, people who care deeply about the material they’re subtitling and spend much more time on getting everything just right than what anyone would ever pay for. But of course the worst subtitles I’ve ever read have also been random finds on the internet.
Big public service broadcasters tend to have solid subtitles in my experience, not perfect, of course, but almost always on a serious level.
Netflix not so much. I’ve regularly encountered some seriously questionable subtitles across languages there. (On the other hand, they’re rather great at always providing subtitles, in lots of different languages.)
But cheap DVDs take the prize, that’s where you consistently find the bottom of the barrel, all the way from from simply confusing to hilariously absurd.
That’s always good!
It blows my mind that you didn’t know this already. This most certainly is common knowledge.
“We’re more popular than Jesus now!”
I will immediately assume that they haven’t read Machiavelli.
So they want us to believe that the company that knowingly profited from genocide in Myanmar also knowingly profited from child exploitation? Really? OK then, I can believe that.
No, you can’t, I quite enjoy having some measure of anonymity here.
The latest new word I’ve learned is this one, which I learned earlier today, Höseler:
Such a child is called sladdbarn in Swedish.
Are you certain that the real contest here is about the spaghetti?
I can’t see how they could manage that without slurping up your contact information.
And remember, it’s spelled Netscape, but it’s pronounced Mozilla.
Run by Gottfrid Svartholm Warg of The Pirate Bay who has already served two prison sentences for acting on his beliefs around personal freedom and intellectual property.
I used to work as a Windows application developer for a while and even though Windows itself never gave me the feeling of “oh, I’d really like to have this at home too” there was the C++ debugger in Microsoft Visual Studio that I remember as being remarkably good, to this day I haven’t seen anything quite like it anywhere else.
It was cancer. Just because the cancer got you down to your goal weight, it doesn’t mean you should lament the success of your chemotherapy.
This is the best explanation of Flash I’ve ever read!
All the big banks I use don’t do anything ither than SMS, they’re lazy AF.
That’s truly mind-blowing, and fraud must be rampant! I have accounts in several different banks in several different countries, both inside and outside of the EU, and I have never ever encountered a bank that would rely on SMS “authentication” for security, not even in the distant past when online banking was new.
https://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/post/41879001445/the-internet