Thursday, August 19, 2004

FTP and English Sub-titles

I got a few chores taken care of then in the evening Jeff and I went to My House for dinner, internet and a movie. Having worked through uploading Jeff’s files via FTP onto the US site, we sat down to dinner and watched 2 movies. The first was Riddick and I’ve forgotten the name of the second one.

It’s funny watching English movies at My House as the language is English yet they are still sub-titled in English. Just as well on occasion as the place can get a little noisy. The funniest part of all is how the English spoken on screen is interpreted in the sub-titles. It’s obviously a non native English speaker translating exactly what they think they hear. In one scene an actor says “Throw on a fresh pair of pants” which gets interpreted in the sub titles as “Throw on pain”. Or “They’re searching houses” as “They are such a nausea”.

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