[design219]

http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode...e-of-west.html


This is what happens when bootleggers take "Revenge of the Sith" to Chinese and then back to English.

[Rev-O]

Heeeelarious!

[Sourbook]

"He big in nothing
important in good elephant."


I must have these subtitles.

[zro]

"Do not want"

A classic!

[Buckaroo]

No wonder people of the world can not get along with each other. We can't understand each other.

[MrForgetable]

"He is in my behind."

[torsoboy]

Kinda makes you wonder what the chinese subtitles actually say...


I actually think they are probably fake. Like the R2 one saying the F- bomb? Yeah right, like they translated it to say that.

[climber]

The translations might of actually helped some of the acting. It certainly could not hurt the dialog.

[lavar78]

Ah, a blast from the past -- still funny.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by torsoboy 

Kinda makes you wonder what the chinese subtitles actually say...


I actually think they are probably fake. Like the R2 one saying the F- bomb? Yeah right, like they translated it to say that.

I’m pretty sure they’re not fake. In many of the cases, I was able to guess more or less what the Chinese subtitles must have said, even without the hint of what the original lines were.

Two examples: the “f*ck” and “good elephant” parts showing up in a few places.

The first one is the character 干, which, in Simplified Chinese, has two different basic meanings as a verb (pronounced gàn): ‘to do’, and, as a colloquial extension of the original meaning, as in English, ‘to do someone, i.e., to f*ck’. Translating by using a dictionary only, and not knowing the target language at all, it’s easy to arrive at such mistakes, since many Chinese people don’t know how to use dictionaries: they think the marker “!” means something like “This is the best option, use this”, when in fact it means “Offensive!”.

The second one is the character 象 xiàng. This is the original character/word for an elephant. 大象 dàxiàng is the normal modern word for an elephant (大 means ‘big’, so it’s really ‘big elephant’). It was borrowed early on, though, for a homophonous word, also xiàng, meaning ‘to resemble’. This second meaning is more properly written with an added radical, 像, but it’s often written without it, as well. The combination 好象 (or, more properly, 好像) means ‘probably’ or ‘it seems that/like...’, and literally consists of the characters 好 hǎo ‘good’ and 象 (像) xiàng ‘resemble’ or ‘elephant’. Therefore: ‘it resembles well that...’ or ‘good elephant’.

There are plenty of other such more or less obvious ones (like “The backstroke of the West”—backstroke should be taken here to mean a strike going back, i.e., revenge; “west” is 西 xī, a simple phonetic transcription of the English word, but using the character that means ‘west’).

Having sat through countless instances of movies with odd subtitles like these, I can say that they are very authentic.

[ghporter]

Why did the Chancellor have to bring in the Presbyterian Church? All would have been well without them!

What gets me is that anyone would attempt to translate something into a language they obviously didn't have any real grasp of, let alone doing this with something that had already been translated into a different language. It's kind of like those Babelfish games, where you take a block of text, translate it into a different language, and then paste the translation into the box and have it translated back into the original language. Stuff comes out downright odd.

[Oisín]

What gets me is that anyone would attempt to translate something into a language they obviously didn't have any real grasp of

The ‘cool’ factor of having English (cool!) subtitles in your film.

[Eriamjh]

Yoda's english has improved!

[Chuckit]

Send these troopeseses only! (Seriously, what? Were they trying to make it very plural?)

The Presbyterian Church like enjoys you not.

[Oisín]

I like the fact that they managed to spell ‘Presbyterian’ correctly, though.

[Goldfinger]

Originally Posted by Chuckit 

Send these troopeseses only! (Seriously, what? Were they trying to make it very plural?)

Well Jar Jar does speak like that..

[Sourbook]

Found the subtitle files. SRT, STL and SUB files
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/elvis2/sw..._subs_NTSC.zip

[Kevin]

Bookmarked... images taking forever to load. Hotlinked to hell no doubt.