• Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    On subtitles - when the person on screen literally says a word in english but the subtitles replace it with another word.

    Depending on the word, this is actually sensible since borrowings tend to change the meaning of the words being borrowed.

    A silly example of that is the Japanese garaigo “ダッチワイフ” datchiwaifu. It’s a borrowing from English “Dutch wife”, and recognisable as such… but you definitively don’t want to translate it as such, as in Japanese it conveys “sex doll”.