Star Wars in Chingrish
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And for those who are sick of hearing about WoolfCamp, it’s now time for something completely different…Winterson.com presents a stunning example of Chinese bootleg American films. He bought the DVD for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith for less than a buck in Shanghai, and was pleasantly entertained to see that it had English subtitles–subtitles that had been translated from English to Chinese, and then from Chinese to English. No, they were not on target.It begs the question, “What were they thinking?! The original English text must have been available!” And it illustrates an important point that people try to ignore about translation: it’s never perfect. You can never fully capture exact meaning between two languages. To further illustrate this point, I’m going to plug the text of this entry into the Babel Fish Translator from English to Chinese, and then translate that output from Chinese to English. Ready? Go.

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Interesting… now, what if we take that text, translate it into Japanese, and then translate that output back to English?

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There you have it, folks. That you complete it is not never.

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Posted in: Chinese | 20 February 2006 | by: sarah #144

4 Responses to “Star Wars in Chingrish”

  1. e Says:
    February 23rd, 2006 at 6:49 pm

    i was poking around trying to find something else, but i found this

    http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/g/intro.html

    which seems like it goes here.

  2. e Says:
    February 22nd, 2006 at 4:57 pm

    Never, accurate meaning between sufficiently two languages cannot be captured.

    i took a german for reading class in grad school and it was chiefly a class in babelfish. i, too, would take my german translated sentences out and run them back into english until i got some kind of approximation of what i meant to say. cuts down on the ambiguities, but also on the, uh, color? obviously not here, though.

  3. Elkit Says:
    February 21st, 2006 at 12:37 am

    The sickness which is heard around the world. I heart babelfish. It prepares? It goes.

    I was watching a Chinese bootleg DVD a little while ago that had subtitles from another film. That was almost cool.

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