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Peg Duthie ([personal profile] pondhop) wrote2014-06-26 07:57 am
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Subtitlers face a number of questions beyond how much to translate. Slang and jargon are perennial tests, but so is humor.

Pascale Joseph, who specializes in translating from English to French, used to go to gun shops to find out certain arcane vocabulary; now it’s message boards on the web.


-- Nicolas Rapold, A Freelance Career, Found in Translation

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