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Re: Beta/resource/Q&A thread

[flootzavut]

Bwahahahaha I'm imagining if they'd had him literally say he was on her in Russian, that would have been highly unfortunate but really rather funny....

If baffles me why these, let's be fair, really lucrative franchises can't go and find someone who actually speaks the language to check the translation. It really can't be that hard, surely? They could afford to play big bucks, but even just finding a Russian grad who had some grasp would be a start, y'know? Hell, I haven't spoken Russian on a regular basis for 15 years, and I could do a better job than they usually do when using Russian in movies and on TV shows. *sigh*

I've long since stopped being surprised when this stuff gets messed up, and I'm sure they work on the principle most of their audience won't know if they make huge, glaring errors, but it would just be so easy to do a much better job :-/ and when you consider how much cash these movies make, you'd think they could find someone who had a better grasp of Russian/German/whatever than bloody Google translate. *facepalm*

Re: Beta/resource/Q&A thread

[(Anonymous)]

They could afford to play big bucks, but even just finding a Russian grad who had some grasp would be a start, y'know?

Honestly? Give me some good basic grammar books and *I* could do better! At least I understand that idioms are a bad idea.

when you consider how much cash these movies make, you'd think they could find someone who had a better grasp of Russian/German/whatever than bloody Google translate.

I mean really. Can you imagine the number of language students who'd basically blow people to have their names in the credits as "Russian language translator", much less actually be *paid* for it?

Re: Beta/resource/Q&A thread

[flootzavut]

Right?? I wouldn't be surprised if people would *pay* for the privilege. But apparently it hasn't occurred to Marvel et al that maybe, just maybe, relying on a free internet translation service isn't the best idea.

(And I have to assume that's more or less what they are doing. I can't fathom how else they make such bizarre mistakes, because mostf the time, they don't make the kind of mistakes that an actual human would make, they make weird, nonsensical errors. Though "yeho" for его reads like someone who speaks Russian with a Ukrainian accent, rather than a computer error. Maybe they put it through a translation program and then asked a Ukrainian how to say it...? I don't know. I suspect trying to make sense of it is a fool's errand...)