On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:42:48 -0600, G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ghostbusters: "Until dickless here shut off the power grid." "Is this true?"
> "Yes your honor, this man has no dick" becomes "Until wally wick here shut
> off the power grid" "Is this true?" "Yes your honor, this man is some kind
> of rodent I don't know which"

Reminds me of watching anime, or any foreign film really. Sometimes
the translations are for decency, particularly when shown on TV. But
sometimes the translations are just bizarre. I like watching a dub
with the subtitles turned on just to catch the differences.

It's gotten a lot better now that anime has become a viable market in
the US, but I was watching the old Star Blazers/Space Battleship
Yamato and the differences were crazy. The ship was renamed from
Yamato to Argo because the Yamato was such a prominent battleship in
WWII and they didn't want it to offend US families. But my favorite
was the doctor who was always drinking sake was edited to be drinking
"spring water" in the english version. That's some potent spring water
since he was constantly drunk off his ass!

And on the show One Piece that is currently being aired, they were in
a resturant and people were smoking cigarettes but when the waiter
poured some wine they kept referring to it as grape juice. "Would you
like some grape juice?" "It's very good grape juice, is it not?"

-Kevin

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