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October is when subtitle files get weird. [ominous breathing] [breathing intensifies] [silence] [louder silence]
NBA opening night, so a word for the occasion. "Fan" is short for fanatic, from Latin fanaticus, "of the temple", used for people who seemed possessed by a god. Sports writers clipped it to "fan" in the 1880s, and honestly the original meaning still fits.
One Piece dub hits Elbaph today, so a giant fact for the occasion: Old English already had a word for giant, "ent". Poets called old Roman ruins "enta geweorc", the work of giants. Yes, that's where Tolkien got the Ents.
Thanks for 35k views on a goodbye. Subtitle crimes is just us, one translation oddity at a time.
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Subtitle crimes #30: English squeezed "God be with you" into "goodbye" over a few centuries. Spanish didn't even hide it. Adiós is literally "a Dios", to God.
Fish Audio's new TTS can change the tone of a single word. Translators have been doing that with one comma for years.
Auto-translate learned to translate a viral post. Translators learned to translate the auto-translate. Somebody has to.
Idioms are a test of whether you grew up in the same country as the writer. Oxford just admitted it. Which idiom broke you?
Indonesian X spent the morning turning off auto-translate, and it kept turning itself back on. First thing they teach translators: if the reader already speaks the language, leave it alone.
Worst client instruction you've ever received? We'll go first: "Can you make it sound less translated? It's a legal contract."
Narnia trailer day. Somewhere a dub team is about to have a very long meeting about Turkish Delight.
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TL note: "They're baaaaaaaack" has 8 a's. The subtitle line has room for 3. The dub actor gets to keep all of them.
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Somewhere 30 subtitlers just got the same email. Step one is deciding how formal "Dearest Gentle Reader" is in a language with three levels of polite.
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And 30 dubbing actors are about to get the same direction note: "Do the accent, but in Polish."
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a classicist who translates sappho and leaves the missing bits of papyrus as actual [ ] brackets instead of inventing filler. translators everywhere are cheering today
We put 1,268 test files through Lexora, from Trados and memoQ packages to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and InDesign. Translated every segment, exported, read it all back.
Wrote up what broke and what we fixed, including the 22 files where our own error message was just wrong 🧵
Our QA checks know French puts a space before ! and that Greek's question mark is ; so correct text doesn't get flagged. Examples here: lexorastudio.com/blog/qualit…
And the rules we follow when we write about Trados, memoQ and the rest: lexorastudio.com/blog/how-we…
