The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 6 months agoHail, Caesar [Scott Hilburn]lemmy.worldimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1955arrow-down116file-text
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minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up9·6 months agoIt’s like in American shows, they just speak English with a foreign accent (potentially unrelated to the location).
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoIt’s reasonable to assume that the characters are speaking their native language and it’s being translated for our benefit, but it becomes weird when they use idioms or puns in English that don’t exist in those languages.
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It’s like in American shows, they just speak English with a foreign accent (potentially unrelated to the location).
It’s reasonable to assume that the characters are speaking their native language and it’s being translated for our benefit, but it becomes weird when they use idioms or puns in English that don’t exist in those languages.