1 Comment TIL that the term ram-don was created for the film Parasite by subtitle translator Darcy Paquet, as the dish’s Korean name, Jjapaguri—a mix of 2 types of instant noodles—was too difficult to translate for an English-speaking audience and figured that they would be familiar with ramen and udon’s mix. by whatilearned March 18, 2022, 9:09 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
1 Comment The wonders of a translator by CopyPastaArchive March 7, 2022, 9:28 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
2 Comments TIL the Ottoman translator who started an epidemic of suicides in Ottoman Empire with his recording of his own suicide minute by minute. “I conducted my surgery, didn’t feel any pain. It hurts a little as the blood flows…” “I can’t think of a sweeter death than this. I now feel like fainting slowly” by whatilearned February 2, 2022, 3:11 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
4 Comments TIL a translator misinterpreted President Carter’s words during his speech in his 1977’s visit to Poland, and made it appear as if he had sexual desires for the country. by whatilearned January 20, 2022, 7:14 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
7 Comments TIL that the letter K was effectively dropped from the Welsh language in the late 1500s, simply because the (English) printers didn’t have enough Ks for the newly translated Welsh New Testament; the translator instructed them to use Cs instead and the convention stuck. by whatilearned January 12, 2022, 12:37 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
4 Comments guys dont translate this using morse code translator by CopyPastaArchive November 15, 2021, 12:58 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
6 Comments get the translator bot to translate this please by CopyPastaArchive November 12, 2021, 1:56 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
TIL Gabriel García Márquez refused to use adverbs ending in -mente in his [Spanish] book “Love in the Time of Cholera”, so he requested that his English translator Edith Grossman omit any use of adverbs enging in -ly. by whatilearned September 27, 2021, 7:41 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
2 Comments I translated Dream’s music lyrics over 30 times on Google Translator by CopyPastaArchive August 11, 2021, 7:35 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
4 Comments TIL Deaf / Blind UK residents cannot serve on jury duty because a translator counts as a “13th person in the room” by whatilearned March 20, 2021, 7:58 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
2 Comments TIL the story of “Aladdin” in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Aka Arabian Nights) has no authentic Arabic textual source and was added by its French translator, Antoine Galland by whatilearned March 20, 2021, 4:07 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
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