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Re: Internet Weirdness

[(Anonymous)]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rz_7Gvej8h4

Classic Betty Boop. What is going on with the subtitles? Turn on closed captions and it’s like they translated them from English into English. Like, Betty says, “Pests!”, and the captions say, “Animals!”. By what mechanism could this possibly happen and why?

Re: Internet Weirdness

[(Anonymous)]

Reminds me of the Netflix anime problem where they reuse the translated subs for the dub version, even though they're not the same at all.

Re: Internet Weirdness

[(Anonymous)]

It’s exactly like that, except this cartoon originates in English and has always been in English. Why would these ‘translated’ subs exist? Where would they come from?

Re: Internet Weirdness

[(Anonymous)]

They pulled a Backstroke of the West on you, I'm afraid.

Re: Internet Weirdness

[(Anonymous)]

dd

TIL about 'backstroke of the west' xD

Re: Internet Weirdness

[(Anonymous)]

SD

Actually, you know what this reminds me of? A while back I visited some lesser-known tourist sites in China, and they'd put up English translations for all of the interpretive signs. The translations weren't bad. Way too formal and academic for the subject matter, but grammatically correct and accurate. I figured they'd press-ganged some local English majors into writing them.

But you'd also get these bizarre spelling errors and typos, e.g.

> The pavilion is built on the place where celestial beings played chess and bad competitions with swords.
> Plagues are regarded as the epitome of Chinese literature beauty and handicraft beauty.

I didn't figure out what was going on until I saw a sign saying 'Dear tourists, welcome to the beautiful Luscribblegu Lake!' My guess is that they were writing out all the text and translations by hand, and whoever transcribed them back onto the signs didn't know English at all.