grrrr

[imwalde]

Ok, now this is REALLY making me mad.

This exchange -- Mal: You want to run this ship?! Jayne: Yes! Mal: ... well, you can't -- became this in French --

Mal: Tu veux commander ce vaisseau? (You want to run this ship?)
Jayne: Oui. (Yes)
Mal: Oublie ça. T'es trop idiot. (Forget it. You're too stupid.)

WHAT? That's not the line!!!!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.


On the plus side, no tears yet!

UPDATE: Grrrrrr. Kaylee's "Hell with this. I'm gonna LIVE!" became "Ah non. Je suis decidée. Pas question de crever." Which means, "I've decided. No question of dying." Annoying! It could be so much better if they only had asked meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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[imwalde.livejournal.com]

I completely forgot you spoke French.

You know, I don't like "ce n'est pas possible" too much either, but it is better. I mean, how hard would it be to sputter, "Ben, tu...peux pas!" (Uh, that would be "ben" the French ummm, of course, not the name, just to clarify. :) )

It just irks me, because so much of the humor of the language is lost and there's no way around it, that when because of cowardly/lazy translation decisions humor/cleverness/charm/uniqueness of dialogue gets lost, too, well that's just not how it should be.

[loveschak.livejournal.com]

(Yeah, I know what ben means. ;-)

It seems like in most of these cases, a simple literal translation would beat the DVD's translations. I wonder why they translate as they do.

Mal : Plus vite ! On profiterait d'un gain de vitesse !

I've seen the Russian phrase "да, я понимаю" (meaning "yes, I understand") translated in two movies as "Yes, I know a couple guys" and "I think I can do it." I've also seen the Spanish "quizás" (meaning "maybe") translated as "maybe not."

[imwalde.livejournal.com]

On profiterait d'un gain de vitesse!

I can live with that although I think it still could be better. At least they used the conditional.