3be
Subj : Re: Star Wreck
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : Timo MK Pietilä
Date : Wed Oct 12 2005 09:19:54

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos


"Robert Bernardo" <rbernardo@iglou.com> kirjoitti viestissE
news:Pine.GSO.4.61.0510120041060.20844@shell1...
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Timo MK PietilE wrote:

>> Very nice that you can understand finnish - few foreigners can.
>> Otherwise, how can you tell which mistakes were "unintentional"?

>  As an English as a Second Language teacher for 26 years and
>editor of translated newslettters/magazines, I can see the English
>subtitles do not make sense.

 Yes, I am sure of it.
But in many cases the original dialog didn't make any real sense, either.
I am sure there ARE errors in the translation, but I am also sure that some
of things you thought were errors were intentional.
Here is some background about translation choices:
http://www-fi1.starwreck.com/annotated_translation.pdf

.

0