Babel barbarisms
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bending_sickleWritten February 12, 2006
How does, “you can’t walk no line*” turn into “you can’t cross the tightrope”? Spanish translators.
How does Ennis del Mar** go from yelling out “ya!” to his horse, leaving Jack without a word, to shouting out an enthusiastic “Yes!” to him? Spanish translators.
How does “The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind” turn into “Forget about me”?
Yup, you guessed it. Spanish translators.
I swear these people haven’t figured out that Babel Fish is utterly unreliable crap.
* From Walk the Line
** From Brokeback Mountain
How does, “you can’t walk no line*” turn into “you can’t cross the tightrope”? Spanish translators.
How does Ennis del Mar** go from yelling out “ya!” to his horse, leaving Jack without a word, to shouting out an enthusiastic “Yes!” to him? Spanish translators.
How does “The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind” turn into “Forget about me”?
Yup, you guessed it. Spanish translators.
I swear these people haven’t figured out that Babel Fish is utterly unreliable crap.
* From Walk the Line
** From Brokeback Mountain
