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Article #237383Re: [ot] yet another one!! will this nightmare ever stop?!
From: DG
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:29
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:29
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ervaqre schreef: >>> And speaking of Danes, I also saw a Danish movie called "I Kina spiser >>> de hunde", which I actually liked a lot. Still, Danish is a strange >>> language. >> Do you know what the title means? > > I think it means "In China eten ze honden". What does "de" mean? The or they? And did the subtitles I > used suck or is Danish a language where you need a whole lot of words to describe simple things? For > instance, several long sentences of Harald talking to Vuk were translated as "Shut up, Puk!" > There's a time and space constraint in subtitles. So they tend to come up with shortened alternatives. Something that would be best translated as "For once keep your big mouth shut, Puk!" could become just "Shut up, Puk!". If the big mouth isn't a plot point or has any importance in the rest of the story this isn't a problem. Alternatively you could just learn Danish. -- Danny.
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