Re:Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese
by toyg on Monday November 11, 2019 @06:11AM
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Considering the eventual hackability of Firewire, maybe the translation was prescient... you’re gonna get burnt by that cable!
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Re:Games with Famous Bad Translations into Japanese
by ejolto on Monday November 11, 2019 @07:27AM
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That makes no sense in context of Norwegian as "get burnt by" is an English idiom.
Closest Norwegian equivalent to getting burnt I can think of is "å få lang nese" which translates into "to get a long nose", e.g. you get a long nose when someone tricks you. So in that case the cable should be called IEEE 1394 — LongNose.
Translation is difficult..