
What Happens When Movie Titles Get Lost In Translation
Words can be funny, especially when it comes to translating them. What seems clear and rational in the native language can become funny, confusing or even embarrassing in the target language. This is what makes a translator’s job so important as they meticulously search for a way to keep a document, a text or even a title as close to the original meaning as possible. A Massive Mess of Movie Titles There are times, however, when translations can’t or don’t want to replicate the original. At the end of February,