subtitle fuckups

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

[neveragain]

I saw one in a League of Gentlemen episode where Judee's voice plays on a tape in the massage parlour and the subtitle began with '(Man's voice)' ...which at least is true I suppose.

[JesusAndYourBush]

One time during a World Cup match in the late 90's I'd put the subtitles on because live subtitles were always a laugh, and Djorkaeff came out as Derk Derk Derk.  I assume back then the live subtitles were done with some sort of phonetic keyboard and the typist sneezed.

[DrGreggles]

[kalowski]

Janet Jazz Jazz Jam were an woefully ignored group from the early 90s.

[AsparagusTrevor]

[popcorn]

Saw an interview on French telly with Dom Howard, drummer out of Muse. Interviewer asked what he'd been listening to recently. He said "It's a bit cheesy, but..." and then named some band. Subtitle translated this as "Jay-Z". Satisfying.

[studpuppet]

Not a fuck-up as such, but I do have an affection for this image.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Not a fuck-up as such, but I do have an affection for this image.

This always raises a smile for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaXz9S32zus

[imitationleather]

[Small Man Big Horse]

Just become aware of this one thanks to twitter:

[the]

I bloody knew See Hear! was a front for something.

[a duncandisorderly]

Just become aware of this one thanks to twitter:

that is magnificent. who-dersfield.

[Depressed Beyond Tables]

Not a fuck-up as such, but I do have an affection for this image.

That's a huge cock.

[MojoJojo]

[inevitable]nah, looks about normal to me[/inevitable]

[Uncle TechTip]

Beautiful, the page cuts off the image so first you're chuckling at the text and then you scroll to the right. A fortuitous reveal of such beauty.

[studpuppet]

[Rolf Lundgren]

They've probably fixed it now but the person who did the subtitles for Only Fools and Horses on Netflix had never seen the show before or heard a London accent. I once had a fun evening taking screenshots of them.

Rodgers, you plunker!

[Zetetic]

(Largely) machine automated?

[Cuellar]

"All right Rodgers" has given me the right giggles

[Mister Six]

(Largely) machine automated?

Machine automated and then read through by a harried, underpaid, debt-ridden graduate drone without any context, I expect.

They keep writing "fathers" as "fellas" in the Amazon Father Ted subtitles and it pisses me right off.

[Sebastian Cobb]

The Jamacian film Rockers has patois translated into English and includes the gloriously literal line 'yo bum cloth, rest man!'.

[Sebastian Cobb]

(Largely) machine automated?

They used to use human typists as they had a typing/subtitling test. Using a qwerty keyboard isn't usually done in professional subtitling, a common way is to use voice recognition trained to someone who respeaks the dialogue clearly for the computer; if it's done live they have a small delay and a second person verifying and correcting it, on top of that they can use specialist corpuses with mangled weightings for technical terms that don't tend to crop up in common speech. I think some places might use stenographic keyboards as well.

[Bhazor]

The english sub for Tales of Berseria is a fun example. Not because the subtitles themselves are hilarious but because its just so obvious when the translation team ran out of money/time. The majority of the the game the translation is solid but then you get to the end game non essential side content and it just completely turns to shit.




https://legendsoflocalization.com/this-be-bad-translation-08-tales-of-berseria/

[Zetetic]

.. if it's done live they have a small delay and a second person verifying and correcting it, on top of that they can use specialist corpuses with mangled weightings for technical terms that don't tend to crop up in common speech. I think some places might use stenographic keyboards as well.

Yes, they do. The one person I've talked to who did this job made it sound absolutely horrendous - including punitive nonsense attached to errors as well.

[DrGreggles]

[Isnt Anything]

Beautiful, the page cuts off the image so first you're chuckling at the text and then you scroll to the right. A fortuitous reveal of such beauty.

oh god yes !!  hadnt seen that until you just pointed it out .... thats fabulous !

[kalowski]

Crying with laughter at "42 caret plunker" and especially "inevitable ball bags of salad"

[AsparagusTrevor]

So what was he really saying? I honestly can't work it out.

[jobotic]

Splashing Alby = splashing out a bit?