Revenge of the Sith (Backstroke of the West): Engrish version

[mollyringwraith]

Sorry for my prolonged absence here. Been busy for many a reason (see lemonlyelit for just one). But I found you a good funneh today:

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Engrish subtitles. Even more incoherent than the ones for LOTR, looks like. Put down the beverages before clicking.

Comments

[marlo]

::tries, fails to stop laughing::

I speak Chinese, so I can understand what went wrong with SOME of the translations, but some of them are still WTF. It looks like it was translated properly into Chinese, but then totally Babelfished into "English," because the sentences are structured just how they are in Chinese.

language rambling. sorry!

[marlo]

For instance: I bet it's backstroke of the West because they probably transliterated the word "Sith" into xi (pronounced "shee"), which sounds like Sith but means "west." Most things from English are transliterated into things that sound like the word, but the characters come from somewhere else because they wouldn't invent new characters every time they came in contact with a new word. (e.g. "hamburger" becomes "han bao bao")

Re: language rambling. sorry!

[mollyringwraith]

Heh! Interesting. So it is via such a path that "Jedi Council" becomes "Presbyterian church"??

[violetsocks]

There are tears in my eyes! At work! People are giving me evil glares! AHHHHHH! *DIES*

[eowyn_luthien]

"I was just made by the Presbyterian Church."

*DIES LAUGHING*

[shelaghc]

They've overloaded the bandwidth already - dammit.

And there are numerous cries for someone to torrent it.

[mollyringwraith]

Hm, drat. Didn't save it myself. I imagine it is out there in bootlegable version, though.