{"id":84,"date":"2007-02-26T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2007\/02\/translation-highlights\/"},"modified":"2007-02-26T08:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T06:38:00","slug":"translation-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2007\/02\/translation-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":">Translation highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>>I&#8217;ve recently noticed that the quality of the Swedish sub-titles at Discovery Channel has dropped dramatically. It seems that the translators work on a word-by-word basis, so the results can be described as machine-translated-ish. Yesterday&#8217;s highlight was the program host saying &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lifting it inch by inch<\/span>&#8221; and the sub-title saying &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lyfter det 2.5cm i taget<\/span>&#8221; &#8211; that is &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lifting it 2.5cm at a time<\/span>&#8220;. Time to get a dictionary including phrases :-)<\/p>\n<p>Other favorites include &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Do you want coke<\/span>&#8221; at the drug dealer &#8211; the translation was &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Do you want a Coca Cola<\/span>&#8221; (often refered to as a Coke in Swedish).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>I&#8217;ve recently noticed that the quality of the Swedish sub-titles at Discovery Channel has dropped dramatically. It seems that the translators work on a word-by-word basis, so the results can be described as machine-translated-ish. Yesterday&#8217;s highlight was the program host saying &#8220;Lifting it inch by inch&#8221; and the sub-title saying &#8220;Lyfter det 2.5cm i taget&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2007\/02\/translation-highlights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">>Translation highlights<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}