Monday, November 20, 2017

And That´s Why



I wanted to watch Eureka, starting with pilot.
Put in the DVD, chose English, no subtitles.

Got subtitles!!! Woah, dang!

Put the DVD out, repeat process.

Subtitles again!
... In English cause it starts with a German quote from Albert Einstein.

My brain at first did not get the difference, crazy, huh? Same to you?

And.
Well.
The usual!

Translated wrong!



"Zu wenig" is not "a little"!
It is just "little"!
And yes, that does make a huge difference.

"Zu viel" is not "a lot"!
It is "too much"!

And, as Ingo added, "Wissen", "knowledge", doesn´t even appear.

Why?!

Really, I just plain hate that!

Who does this???
And why...

And two episodes later I got confused again cause...



I bought the set here and, mind you... is this really necessary?

But then again... In Perth I got Jamie´s 15 and 30 minute meals and I can never give it to Bro cause it doesn´t even come with subtitles. So what about deaf people, Jamie??? (Bro is not deaf, but not so fluent in English, so subtitles might be helpful.)

And then, by no means I´m talented myself, but I sure had to laugh about this one (they spoke some Asian language)!



Reminded me of when we were in Sun Pictures in Broome watching Life is Beautiful in the original, means Italian with English subtitles and we were the only ones laughing bitterly about the translation of the German Na#i...

The brain is a funny thing, no?

6 comments:

PerthDailyPhoto said...

That's hilarious Iris, translation can be so tricky but Mr Einstein's quote is spot on! ☺

Iris Flavia said...

Mr Einstein would not be pleased, Grace ;-)

Revrunner said...

Just watched a German film with English subtitles. I could read them for a change, I guess because it was made in 2014. They've improved.

Iris Flavia said...

Interesting - what did you watch?

Lowcarb team member said...

Sub titles can be so helpful ...

All the best Jan

Iris Flavia said...

Or not, Jan ;-)