Claudia's Translation Blog » subtitling http://www.hispaniclanguages.com/blog A blog for Hispanic Languages Translations Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:50:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Subtitling: “You want to tell me that that wants to chase a plastic fist Put is a homosexuality into my fart eye?” http://www.hispaniclanguages.com/blog/2010/02/12/subtitling-you-want-to-tell-me-that-that-wants-to-chase-a-plastic-fist-put-is-a-homosexuality-into-my-fart-eye/ http://www.hispaniclanguages.com/blog/2010/02/12/subtitling-you-want-to-tell-me-that-that-wants-to-chase-a-plastic-fist-put-is-a-homosexuality-into-my-fart-eye/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:21:50 +0000 Claudia Alvis http://www.hispaniclanguages.com/blog/?p=225 “You want to tell me that that
wants to chase a plastic fist
Put is a homosexuality into
my fart eye?”
–Borat

Seriously?

Is it machine translation? Crowdsourcing? Back-translation? Maybe all of the above, but these subtitles are as funny (and intelligible) as they can get. Not even a professional translator could decipher that.

I took the quote above from a slideshow that The Huffington Post has compiled and it has some of the most hilarious subtitles I’ve seen:

Lost In Translation: When Subtitles Go Wrong (PICTURES)

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