Knitting daiquiris

¶ 8 May 06

The response from subtitler Guy to my – lamentably unanswerable, but many thanks for the wonderful input – translation questions reminded me of the best subtitling goof I’ve seen this week. (Yes, I collect them, but only in my head – which makes me only sort of really merciless and annoying).

A man invites a woman to go to a bar with him. ‘What’s in it for me?’ she asks.

‘A drink and a great yarn,’ he replies.

Translated as: ‘I will buy you a drink and some nice wool.’

 

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Comment

  1. You should absolutely post more translation bloopers!
    — Andrew    May 8, 4:25pm    #
  2. By all means, do post more :-)
    — Guy    May 8, 6:10pm    #
  3. I can live with that kind of mistranslation (in my other life, I’m an avid knitter)!
    — Roggey    May 9, 2:32pm    #
  4. i thought you were talking about a knitting bar where people go to hang out and knit together :0
    — jimmy steel    May 11, 2:02am    #

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