Did you walk away from Squid Game understanding the ending? As the Netflix show Squid Game becomes the most popular series in the world, it's important to talk about how it happened. One of the main reasons, aside from availability on a platform, is that the show was translated into dozens of languages, with subtitles in 37 languages, and it dubs its shows in 34 more languages. That made people across the globe able to enjoy the show immediately. But what good is that if the subtitles are wrong? The BBC is reporting that TikTok user Youngmi Mayer went viral covering the mistranslations in the English language closed-caption subtitles. In one example, Youngmi explains that a line translated as, "I'm not a genius, but I still got it worked out," would be better translated as, "I am very smart; I just never got a chance to study." That kind of tweak actually changes a character in our eyes and provides some backstory and questions that were never there before. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 8 October, 2021