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(I Heart Chaos) Amusing Something really gets lost when one translates the whole "jive talking" scene from Airplane into French. You dig, le honkey?   (iheartchaos.com) divider line 20
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Ennuipoet [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 08:29:32 AM
Merde!*

*Golly!
 
Dead for Tax Reasons [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 08:33:27 AM
Oh hôtesse je parle jive
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 08:37:57 AM
They should have used Acadian and Parisian French for Jive and American.
 
jaylectricity [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 08:40:45 AM
Avez-vous déjà vu un homme cultivé nu?
 
SmackLT [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 09:06:23 AM
ZAZ: They should have used Acadian and Parisian French for Jive and American.

I know the producers did that with the German version. I read that they were using a Bavarian dialect or something like that.
 
JW
2012-02-09 09:20:54 AM
I don't think that the author speaks French. The voices and the text were not matching up. The joke was still there.
 
ABQGOD
2012-02-09 09:37:11 AM
JW: I don't think that the author speaks French. The voices and the text were not matching up. The joke was still there.

Oui.
 
chopit
2012-02-09 10:06:06 AM
Ah yes, I remember. I had the chicken cordon bleu avec truffles garnished with a jaunty beret.
 
MoronLessOff
2012-02-09 10:09:11 AM
 
El Pelon
2012-02-09 11:33:00 AM
JW I couldnt agree more. The joke still stands. I love that scene. It is probably one of the best comedic scenes in a movie (IMHO).

/Golly.
 
leftymcrighty
2012-02-09 11:41:32 AM
Yeah, that wasn't exactly accurate. From what I can tell, they were also jive-talking in french, then someone added the jive-french to normal-french subtitles (yellow), and then someone else added the normal-french to normal-english (white)

I know because I speak french and I didn't understand a word they were saying
 
ballistic123
2012-02-09 12:23:19 PM
ABQGOD: JW: I don't think that the author speaks French. The voices and the text were not matching up. The joke was still there.

Oui.

Ouais.
 
Professor_Nutbutter
2012-02-09 01:25:45 PM
One more for saying that the joke rests (albeit somewhat diluted).

However, they did translate the relatively simple "Airplane!" into "Y a-t-il un pilote dans l'avion ?" Sometimes it's a bugger trying to find films that you know as the French decide to completely mistranslate the titles...
 
RocketRod [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 02:44:20 PM
You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France?
 
DeltaPunch [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 03:11:22 PM
Spoken: "C'est la vie", meaning: "That's life",
subtitled: Tres vrai ("How true", matches English one)

Spoken: "Qeulles shiotes", meaning: "those shiats (lit. what toilets)",
subtitled: Tu as raison ("you're right", while in english "golly")
 
DeltaPunch [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 03:18:55 PM
Watching it again, all the subtitles match (not exactly, but within the meaning of translation), except the last one where the English reads "golly" and the French translates to "you're correct".

I understand spoken French fluently, and I have no idea what they were actually saying (apart from hearing individual words). My SO is French, I sent it to her, curious to see if she can actually understand any of it...
 
DeltaPunch [TotalFark]
2012-02-10 12:06:52 AM
DeltaPunch: My SO is French, I sent it to her, curious to see if she can actually understand any of it...

She said something like the clip "mobilized my three hemispheres", which I believe means she has no idea what they're saying.
 
Bad_Seed
2012-02-10 09:26:00 AM
jaylectricity: Avez-vous déjà vu un homme cultivé nu?

Have you seen a cultured man naked, yet, sir?

/machine translations still suck
 
Keigh [TotalFark]
2012-02-10 01:23:56 PM
I watched this at work, so there was no sound.. it was funny in a.. not very funny way

/golly
 
stoppit
2012-02-12 07:56:18 AM
MoronLessOff: Fark dialectized into Jive.

/You're welcome

That's hilarious!
 
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