[etni] Re: lost in translation
- From: Micaela Ziv <zivmica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: graniewitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx, etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:42:09 +0300
Dear David,
If you had any idea how little the subtitlers are paid per program and hence
how little time they have to do it in if they want to pay their bills, you
would be asking yourself how it is that they don't make more blunders!
If things don't improve soon, you may find that there are no subtitles at
all!
But you are right of course - subtitle bloopers are often hilarious...
Best,
Micaela Ziv
(former teacher, now chair of the Israel Translators Association, which is
trying to help the subtitlers get better working conditions.....)
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Graniewitz" <graniewitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <caddy_1998@xxxxxxxxx>; <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Judy Astary" <judyastary@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 9:01 AM
Subject: [etni] Re: lost in translation
Here's one that I caught on telly only yesterday. I was
watching the excellent BBC series "Days that changed
History." This particular programme dealt with the
Hindenberg airship disaster of 1937. The Zeppellin was
described as being as large as "4 football pitches". The
translation of this that appeared in the subtitles was "arba
zerikot cadooregel." The mind boggles. What morons are
getting paid to translate programmes into Hebrew?
If you're talking about Hebrew to English, the list is
endless. A few examples I've had are
a) This book is a voltage story (sippur metach)
b) He uterus the little boy (Hu richem ....)
c)[On the front page of a project handed in to me]
Waiter: Yossi Cohen (the pupil meant "magish")
GIVE ME STRENGTH!!!!
Hope this helps
David
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