Questions tagged [translation]
Determining what characters say or write, or transference of a story from one language to another.
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What Quechua song is Kusimayu's aunt singing in Pluribus, and what is its cultural significance?
In the season finale of Pluribus (S01E09, "La Chica o El Mundo"), there's a scene showing Kusimayu, a Peruvian woman who is one of the 13 people immune to the "Joining," ...
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What was the meaning of Collie Parker's Algonquin chant in The Long Walk?
In The Long Walk (2025), near the final stretch of the titular brutal endurance race (around 1:25:42), Collie Parker (walker #48, played by Joshua Odjick) does something no other walker manages to do: ...
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What was said in Gaelic while agreeing to the proposal in Outlander Season 1, Episode 2?
In Outlander Season 1, Episode 2 "Castle Leoch," further to my previous question, while agreeing to James Fraser's proposal, what was also said here? (6-second sound clip)
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Outlander Season 1 Episode 2 - What was said in Gaelic while offering to take punishment on another's behalf
In episode 2 of Season 1 (Castle Leoch), James Fraser is offering to take punishment on behalf of Laoghaire. The coversation is in Scottish Gaelic and my knowledge of the language is very limited.
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What does this word "ahn-shdah-heh" mean?
In Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), following the murders of Anna Brown and Charles Whitehorn, both Osage Nation tribal members and early victims in the series of killings targeting the wealthy ...
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Triumph over violence - what does the original Russian title mean?
"Triumph over Violence", The 1960s documentary by Mikhail Romm about Nazi Germany is entitled Обыкновенный фашизм in the original Russian. The literal translation, according to deepl.com, ...
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In Law & Order SVU S24 E2, Grace says something in Spanish to the grandmother. What did they say?
In Grace Muncy's first episode, she says something in Spanish at 12 minutes 50 seconds into the show to the grandmother which seemed to help convince the grandmother into revealing her grandson.
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What does this elvish-looking writing mean?
In Knights of Badassdom, a character is wearing a kippah (Jewish head covering for a male) and it has some writing on it. It looks to be in some elvish-type writing. Is there any way to find out what ...
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What was the word translated as "Kamikaze" in the subtitled version of “Godzilla: Minus One?”
In the movie Godzilla: Minus One (2023) the English language subtitles use the word Kamikaze multiple times throughout its runtime, but in several scenes the Japanese language dialog uses a different ...
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In Pulp Fiction, how was the "Catch up!" joke translated into other languages?
In the movie Pulp fiction, the character Mia Wallace tells the following joke:
"Three tomatoes are walking down the street: a poppa tomato, a momma tomato, and baby tomato. Baby tomato starts ...
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How often do localized versions of movies localize shots?
When a movie is released internationally, it is not unbeknown to localize credits and title sequences (on top of the must-dos — localizing audio and, often, subtitles).
But The NeverEnding Story takes ...
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What does Ng Lieu Cho really say at the end of S04E11?
At the end of Mad About You season 4 episode 10 ("Get Back"), Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser) "translates" for the dissident poet Ng Lieu Cho (Jim Lau), because he fails to pick up ...
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What is this bottle shown in "An American Tail"?
In An American Tail, one scene (at about 28:20) prominently features a bottle with Yiddish lettering on it:
and ten seconds later (mysteriously with a different font):
(My original guesses (תבצב״ת ...
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What is the deal with the "universal greeting" in Transformers: The Movie?
When Hot Rod & Kup crash-land on the garbage planet, whose inhabitants promptly surround our heroes, Kup resorts to the "universal greeting," which goes something like this:
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What does the Hungarian burn victim shout at Jack Baer?
There is an early scene in The Usual Suspects (@ 20m40s) where FBI agent Jack Baer visits a burn victim in the hospital. The victim starts talking in "not English" (we later learn it is ...
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