Tag: movies
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Trapped in Toyland: Effective non-translation in Toy Story
A far cry from last time’s outing, which listed some of the best online resources out there to help you get better acquainted with translation studies as a discipline, today’s post is perhaps a bit more fun. As one of the defining films of my childhood, Toy Story has always had a special place in…
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Guest Post: Film Titles – A Puzzling Matter.
Having enjoyed Joseph’s articles on translating film titles (The Good, the Bad and the Inexplicable and the sequel), I accepted his ‘challenge’ to talk (well, write) about English film titles translated into Romanian: the good and the bad. As a film lover and a linguist, I could go on and on and on and on…
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Film Titles in Translation: The Sequel
Hot on the heels of my last post, which was a bit heavier than usual, I thought I’d get back into familiar territory with something a bit more fun. Seeing as my first post on the translation of film titles had a fair bit of interest and was so fun to write, I thought I’d…
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Film titles in translation: The Good, the Bad and the Inexplicable.
The title says it all really: a blog about the translation of film titles. Given the magnitude of the film industry, this relatively small sector of translation is clearly of utmost importance. With so many films released which are all vying for the public’s hard-earned cash, the power of a title cannot be overstated; it…
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