Comments on: Star Wars subtitles gone haywire

By: Nodnarb

Nodnarb — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:09:50 +0000

Oh, this is most definitely real. I saw a friend’s copy of X-men that he bought in China and its “English” subtitles were just as crazy.
It happens when the bootleggers try to make their copy as close to an official copy as possible, which of course includes having English subtitles.
The audio is run through a translator into Mandarin and then they translate the Mandarin back to English using the same automated process. That’s when unintentional hilarity ensues.

By: hmm

hmm — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:45:27 +0000

why would there be english subtitles. this makes no sense. fake

By: Sihsboy

Sihsboy — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:28:29 +0000

Smelly Boy!

By: Brandon M. Sergent

Brandon M. Sergent — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:47:34 +0000

But seriously folks, what is going on here? What are we looking at? A bootleg of some kind?

What circumstances would require/produce english subtitles obviously translated from a bad verbal translation into whatever dialect then back to written english?

Where is the fail here exactly? Literacy or linguistic or verbal or all of the above?

Like the first panel throws everything out of whack, how in the world did that get mistranslated?

Perhaps it was automated? Like some sort of hearing impaired option built into a device?

I’m just confused as hell.

By: Darkr0nin

Darkr0nin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:43:30 +0000

DO NOT WANT

By: Louise

Louise — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:29:57 +0000

First time I’ve ever literally cried laughing at something.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:02:00 +0000

DO NOT WANT

By: Fliptrx

Fliptrx — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:33:41 +0000

Me think it not need be funny for fool to laugh…

By: Jive

Jive — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:19:43 +0000

Is this for real?!?!? It has to be photoshop!!!

By: Lizz

Lizz — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:25:09 +0000

I cried! God that is funny!