like, the Butterfly thing. You know, when you are nervous, or excited, or whatnot, and you feel butterflies inside? There's no such thing in Polish. When someone reads that a main character had butterflies in her stomach he starts to think she stood with her mouth open for too long and something flew in.)
ROTFLMAO that's good one
about the translations, you're right and i agree with the predecessor, you should try to find a job in this business. i'm sure that it would be a perfect job for you ;-)
The best part was when there was a casting to the Romeo and Juliet musical, you know, the Metro one? The modern one? Yeah. So, when they were interviewing people for main roles they made them write Romeo's and Juliet's diaries. And one girl described her first meeting with Romeo like that 'and I felt butterflies in my stomach', of course in Polish. I was watching an interview with creators on tv some time ago and someone, casting director, or whatever, was talking and talking and talking on how it was amazing imaginery and that they decided to make it a subtitle for the show, and how brilliant it was, yadda. And I go 'wtf? it's a direct translation of an idiom in English, ya morons!' My family looked at me strangely... Maybe because I did yell at the tv in English. Which happens.
But I'll start worry about it when I yell in English during sex.
I can totally relate. *nods* German translations often aren't that bad (or maybe I've just been lucky so far), but they do translate names and other things that -imho- don't need translation and of course they can't convey dialects or accents.
(The worst thing was The Lord of the Rings - there used to be a perfectly good translation, but then the publisher randomly decided that it was time for a new one and had it translated again. And it sucked so much!)
Your English is really good. I usually forget that you're not from an English-speaking like the rest of my FList is. It's actuaslly better than a lot of English people's is. ;)
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Write the publisher, and complain about the inconsistancies. Translate a few paragraphs of your own.
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Probably.
But thank you, honey *hugs*
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ROTFLMAO
that's good one
about the translations, you're right and i agree with the predecessor, you should try to find a job in this business. i'm sure that it would be a perfect job for you ;-)
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Yeah. So, when they were interviewing people for main roles they made them write Romeo's and Juliet's diaries. And one girl described her first meeting with Romeo like that 'and I felt butterflies in my stomach', of course in Polish.
I was watching an interview with creators on tv some time ago and someone, casting director, or whatever, was talking and talking and talking on how it was amazing imaginery and that they decided to make it a subtitle for the show, and how brilliant it was, yadda.
And I go 'wtf? it's a direct translation of an idiom in English, ya morons!'
My family looked at me strangely...
Maybe because I did yell at the tv in English.
Which happens.
But I'll start worry about it when I yell in English during sex.
...Uhm... I think I'm worried...
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LOL
nah, it's good and healthy.
and completely normal :D
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Because first - of course. Second - kinda surprising for partner, methinks.
*g*
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But this is one of the most brilliant ones.
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(The worst thing was The Lord of the Rings - there used to be a perfectly good translation, but then the publisher randomly decided that it was time for a new one and had it translated again. And it sucked so much!)
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Your English is really good. I usually forget that you're not from an English-speaking like the rest of my FList is. It's actuaslly better than a lot of English people's is. ;)
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