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msginnymalfoy · 2 years

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💀😂

#there is so much in this #like these people were definitely weirded out with fan's twisted bizarre ships #coach fantasies #idk why this one makes me laugh so much #THIS IS THE FIRST EVER GIFSET I MADE #with subtitles and all #coach finstock #scott mccall #tyler posey #orny adams #after after show #teen wolf #my gifs

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shesnake · 3 months

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All of Us Strangers (2023) dir. Andrew Haigh

#filmtag #lgbtcinema #all of us strangers #andrew haigh #andrew scott #paul mescal #film #fm #*#q #subtitles #dsg #lgbt directors

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briefle · 5 months

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i am being so brave about this moment. normal even.

#BRAVE AND NORMAL.#so normal i'm learning a whole new program at hours forbidden to add subtitles and a jpeg to this clip #secret life #secret life spoilers #mumbo jumbo #geminitay #i ain't tagging all of them ngl #.clips #.my clips

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royalarchivist · 4 months

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Tubbo: What was wrong with the timing?!

Pac: You did it in the worst possible timing! Everything was–

Bagi: I think we ruined the kiss.

Everyone:

Pac: It– it wasn't the kiss, more– you know? It was– *mumbles*

Tubbo: IT WAS MORE?! IT WAS MORE?! ON THE FIRST DATE?!

Bagi: WE DON'T NEED THE DETAILS!

Fit: That's not what he meant!

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andi-o-geyser · 8 months

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everyone say thank you subtitle team

#THANK YOU SUBTITLE TEAM #i want to give the person who writes these subtitles a kiss on the mouth #the editors of these episodes oh my GOD they are doing the lord's work with all the visual effects and sounds and subs i just can't #d20 editors>>>>>#dimension 20 #d20 #dimension 20 mentopolis #mentopolis spoilers #mentopolis #d20 mentopolis #brennan lee mulligan #mike trapp #hunch curio #stacy fakename #andis thought geyser

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marypickfords · 2 years

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We're All Going to the World's Fair (Jane Schoenbrun, 2021)

#we're all going to the world's fair #jane schoenbrun #horror #caps #subtitles

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ghuleh-anima-mia · 5 months

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come, mist eternal

#secondo singing secular haze is just so captivating #i could literally watch him sing all day #this song has always been a favourite of mine #i wanted to add subtitles and looked them up just to avoid any mistakes #people said conflicting things so i didn't add them #the band ghost #ghost bc #papa emeritus ii #secondo #flashing lights #ghuleh anima mia gifs

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flea-palace · 21 days

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erik on his regularly scheduled bullshit

#the subtitles are so good im trying to capture as many as i can #they're all hits tho #phantom of the opera #poto #erik #erik the phantom #y/k phantom #yeston and kopit phantom

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lurkingteapot · 11 months

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Every now and then I think about how subtitles (or dubs), and thus translation choices, shape our perception of the media we consume. It's so interesting. I'd wager anyone who speaks two (or more) languages knows the feeling of "yeah, that's what it literally translates to, but that's not what it means" or has answered a question like "how do you say _____ in (language)?" with "you don't, it's just … not a thing, we don't say that."

I've had my fair share of "[SHIP] are [married/soulmates/fated/FANCY TERM], it's text!" "[CHARACTER A] calls [CHARACTER B] [ENDEARMENT/NICKNAME], it's text!" and every time. Every time I'm just like. Do they though. Is it though. And a lot of the time, this means seeking out alternative translations, or translation meta from fluent or native speakers, or sometimes from language learners of the language the piece of media is originally in.

Why does it matter? Maybe it doesn't. To lots of people, it doesn't. People have different interests and priorities in fiction and the way they interact with it. It's great. It matters to me because back in the early 2000s, I had dial-up internet. Video or audio media that wasn't available through my local library very much wasn't available, but fanfiction was. So I started to read English language Gundam Wing fanfic before I ever had a chance to watch the show. When I did get around to watching Gundam Wing, it was the original Japanese dub. Some of the characters were almost unrecognisable to me, and first I doubted my Japanese language ability, then, after checking some bits with friends, I wondered why even my favourite writers, writers I knew to be consistent in other things, had made these characters seem so different … until I had the chance to watch the US-English dub a few years later. Going by that adaptation, the characterisation from all those stories suddenly made a lot more sense. And the thing is, that interpretation is also valid! They just took it a direction that was a larger leap for me to make.

Loose adaptations and very free translations have become less frequent since, or maybe my taste just hasn't led me their way, but the issue at the core is still a thing: Supernatural fandom got different nuances of endings for their show depending on the language they watched it in. CQL and MDZS fandom and the never-ending discussions about 知己 vs soulmate vs Other Options. A subset of VLD fans looking at a specific clip in all the different languages to see what was being said/implied in which dub, and how different translators interpreted the same English original line. The list is pretty much endless.

And that's … idk if it's fine, but it's what happens! A lot of the time, concepts -- expressed in language -- don't translate 1:1. The larger the cultural gap, the larger the gaps between the way concepts are expressed or understood also tend to be. Other times, there is a literal translation that works but isn't very idiomatic because there's a register mismatch or worse. And that's even before cultural assumptions come in. It's normal to have those. It's also important to remember that things like "thanks I hate it" as a sentiment of praise/affection, while the words translate literally quite easily, emphatically isn't easy to translate in the sense anglophone internet users the phrase.

Every translation is, at some level, a transformative work. Sometimes expressions or concepts or even single words simply don't have an exact equivalent in the target language and need to be interpreted at the translator's discretion, especially when going from a high-context/listener-responsible source language to a low-context/speaker-responsible target language (where high-context/listener responsible roughly means a large amount of contextual information can be omitted by the speaker because it's the listener's responsibility to infer it and ask for clarification if needed, and low-context/speaker-responsible roughly means a lot of information needs to be codified in speech, i.e. the speaker is responsible for providing sufficiently explicit context and will be blamed if it's lacking).

Is this a mouse or a rat? Guess based on context clues! High-context languages can and frequently do omit entire parts of speech that lower-context/speaker-responsible languages like English regard as essential, such as the grammatical subject of a sentence: the equivalent of "Go?" - "Go." does largely the same amount of heavy lifting as "is he/she/it/are you/they/we going?" - "yes, I am/he/she/it is/we/you/they are" in several listener-responsible languages, but tends to seem clumsy or incomplete in more speaker-responsible ones. This does NOT mean the listener-responsible language is clumsy. It's arguably more efficient! And reversely, saying "Are you going?" - "I am (going)" might seem unnecessarily convoluted and clumsy in a listener-responsible language. All depending on context.

This gets tricky both when the ambiguity of the missing subject of the sentence is clearly important (is speaker A asking "are you going" or "is she going"? wait until next chapter and find out!) AND when it's important that the translator assign an explicit subject in order for the sentence to make sense in the target language. For our example, depending on context, something like "are we all going?" - "yes" or "they going, too?" might work. Context!

As a consequence of this, sometimes, translation adds things – we gain things in translation, so to speak. Sometimes, it's because the target language needs the extra information (like the subject in the examples above), sometimes it's because the target language actually differentiates between mouse and rat even though the source language doesn't. However, because in most cases translators don't have access to the original authors, or even the original authors' agencies to ask for clarification (and in most cases wouldn't get paid for the time to put in this extra work even if they did), this kind of addition is almost always an interpretation. Sometimes made with a lot of certainty, sometimes it's more of a "fuck it, I've got to put something and hope it doesn't get proven wrong next episode/chapter/ten seasons down" (especially fun when you're working on a series that's in progress).

For the vast majority of cases, several translations are valid. Some may be more far-fetched than others, and there'll always be subjectivity to whether something was translated effectively, what "effectively" even means …

ANYWAY. I think my point is … how interesting, how cool is it that engaging with media in multiple languages will always yield multiple, often equally valid but just sliiiiightly different versions of that piece of media? And that I'd love more conversations about how, the second we (as folks who don't speak the material's original language) start picking the subtitle or dub wording apart for meta, we're basically working from a secondary source, and if we're doing due diligence, to which extent do we need to check there's nothing substantial being (literally) lost -- or added! -- in translation?

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shesnake · 2 years

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Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

#everything everywhere all at once #daniel kwan #daniel scheinert #ke huy quan #film #fm #*#*eeaao #q #subtitles #1k #5k #10k

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guardian-angle22 · 2 years

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Rahul Kohli + meeting Hayden Christensen

#rahul kohli #hayden christensen #midnight mass cast #star wars cast #i love everything about this #hayden aint wrong midnight mass was fucking good #rahul will forever hold a place in my heart simply for the hashtag of stanakin #my gifs #the saturn awards 2022 #that little stutter step of haydens like... should i stop and gush about midnight mass? eh lets do it #the [subtitles in brackets] are all 100% just what I'm lipreading here so it isnt fact but im like 98% sure I got that all right #you can also see rahul immediately say 'I'm a big fan' to hayden and we love him for it

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royalarchivist · 2 months

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Ender King: Your son has found me. Found you. And we’ve been fighting him this whole time.

[Phil gets knocked off the platform by a zombie]

Phil: Ok, well... bloopers! 😅

#Philza #Ender King #QSMP #I LOVE BLOOPERS #Phil #From one lore to another #Edited #Subtitles #Tumblr's taking so long to upload things I just edited them all together

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gidle · 3 months

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"The debut song of (G)I-DLE was also made by you. What was the member's first reaction when you were going to use Soyeon's song?" — Jeon Soyeon on Lee Mujin Service (2024)

#soyeon #gidle #femaleidolsedit #femaleidol #kgoddesses #ggnet #user6idles #namjoonlisa #jeon soyeon #i think so many people look at soyeon and think she had her producing position fed on a silver spoon. like she didnt fought for it.#also the way the members always back her up the antis can cry all they want but this is a group and they will always support each other <3 #this is THEEEEE laziest scene > subtitle conversion i have ever done. do not ask me to match #mine*

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xofemeraldstars · 3 months

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ARE THEY HYPOXIC ??

#naomi's reaction was SO FUNNY #also idk why these subtitles don't show all the spoken lines #the expanse #amos burton #bobbie draper #prax meng #james holden #naomi nagata #chrisjen avasarala #alex kamal #kya watches stuff

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ridragon · 3 months

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Genuine question. Have you people ever actually seen hazbin or helluva or do you just fucking bitch about it because it's the trend to do. Like. Helluva has kinda shit first few episodes that are way over the top with sex jokes, but it gets better when it gets to the actual story and they cool it. I bet no on complaining has seen it

#the jokes are decent. the music is great. the animation is beautiful. the overall story imo is good #like shut up about the creator doing shitty stuff more than that person wlrked on it #ri rambles #hazbin hotel #also the subtitles are really good #helluva boss #it has a character who talks in a radio voice all the time it's great

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conjuring-ghouls · 10 months

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Terzo funny moments (3/?)

So me and @sxnnelysister are back with more parts for the Terzo series we've been working on! As always, you can check her blog for the next part (and give her a follow if you haven't already! 🖤)

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