Mogul Posted July 28, 2005 http://americaninlebanon.blogspot.com/2005/07/backstroke-of-west.html This is the funnies mistranslations of anything I've read in years. 0 Share this post Link to post
Kristian Ronge Posted July 28, 2005 Unbelievable! I laughed so much I had trouble breathing... :-) 0 Share this post Link to post
insertwackynamehere Posted July 28, 2005 HAHA what teh fuck The Backstroke Of The West?? 0 Share this post Link to post
Udderdude Posted July 29, 2005 As if the dialogue wasn't bad enough .. this brings it to unprecedented levels of insanity. So good .. I hope this guy picks up more DVDs from the same place. :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted July 29, 2005 Must be fake. The mis-translations are a bit too convenient. Translating "No" as "Do not want", all the Gollum-speak, Yoda mentioning pregnancy in a scene from the movie where pregnancy simply didn't come up, even the Chinese must know what "fucking" is. 0 Share this post Link to post
Submerge Posted July 29, 2005 And here we have a fresh batch of quotes that will be overused to much hilarity. my huge guts will enjoy the laughter. 0 Share this post Link to post
insertwackynamehere Posted July 29, 2005 Enjay said:Must be fake. The mis-translations are a bit too convenient. Translating "No" as "Do not want", all the Gollum-speak, Yoda mentioning pregnancy in a scene from the movie where pregnancy simply didn't come up, even the Chinese must know what "fucking" is. keep in mind swear words impact change throughout languange. What one insult thats tame here, could translate vaguley into a tame chinese insult, which happens to translate back into our more vulgar swear word 0 Share this post Link to post
SteelPH Posted July 30, 2005 Winner. Worst translation since Zero Wing and Megaman X6. :D 0 Share this post Link to post
Mogul Posted July 30, 2005 I think this tops Zero Wing. If ZW were longer, maybe it would still be the master. 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted July 30, 2005 insertwackynamehere said:keep in mind swear words impact change throughout languange. What one insult thats tame here, could translate vaguley into a tame chinese insult, which happens to translate back into our more vulgar swear word Even so, nearly every one of these looks contrived to be funny and most of them simply too convenient for genuine mistakes. Even the title. and the Gollum speak? and the pregnancy? Also, it's a minor point, and I know funny things can occur in the world of movie piracy so I'm not saying it couldn't be the case, (and I know it says "a direct English translation of the Chinese interpretation of what the script was saying" which I don't really understand) but why is a pirate of what is probably an English language print of the movie subtitled in English? Did they dub it into Chinese then sub title it? Did they put sub titles onto the English print using a (possibly non existent) Chinese script for the movie as their reference? I personally suspect the site is a bunch of screen grabs from the pirate with captions added using photoshop (etc) to make some funnies. 0 Share this post Link to post
alexz721 Posted July 30, 2005 Read some of the comments below the actual post. A few have some good reasons for why it is not false. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted July 30, 2005 Rofl...Presbytarian Church. But ah, this reminds me of that Two Towers DVD with captions that turned out to be fake. 0 Share this post Link to post
bartwart Posted August 2, 2005 I tried reading this at work but had to stop at "fucking". I could barely contain myself when I read that. 0 Share this post Link to post