Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Help with dissertation please!
Poster: Kirsten Bodart
Post title: The four candles sketch
I think you'd need to be incredibly lucky with your target language to be able to translate it all, with the images. In a sense, puns are potentially easier if you can find a different expression that means the same.
Like the pointless one. Is it really untranslatable? Or might there be another Russian expression you could use to make a pun?
Come to think of it, Agent Crabtree's terrible 'French' in [i]'Allo! 'Allo![/i] is riddled with puns (he enters the series from season 2). Care to try and get all these puns in Italian?
Topic: Help with dissertation please!
Poster: Kirsten Bodart
Post title: The four candles sketch
I think you'd need to be incredibly lucky with your target language to be able to translate it all, with the images. In a sense, puns are potentially easier if you can find a different expression that means the same.
Like the pointless one. Is it really untranslatable? Or might there be another Russian expression you could use to make a pun?
Come to think of it, Agent Crabtree's terrible 'French' in [i]'Allo! 'Allo![/i] is riddled with puns (he enters the series from season 2). Care to try and get all these puns in Italian?