History Quotes / BlindIdiotTranslation

->''[[EskimosArentReal Do horses still exist?]]''
-->-- '''Seiji Sagara''', ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure: Ballerina of the Doll Kingdom''

-->-- '''Dr. Eggman''' calling the power of the explosion the name of his base, ''Anime/Sonic X''

-->--''VideoGame/Ghostbusters1984'' for NES, which was developed in Japan.

-->-- '''Dr. Eggman''' calling the power of the explosion the name of his base, ''Sonic X''

->''What a beautiful duwang. There must be no place as pretty as this town. This feels like a picnic. *Chew*''

-->-- The tagline of a Buyee portable DVD player/UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem emulator that was part of the second wave of [[Music/SouljaBoy SouljaGame]] consoles[[note]]best read in [[WebVideo/{{Rerez}} a voice]] that sounds like [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit]] doing a [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Homsar]] impression[[/note]]

-->-- '''Aeris''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' (UsefulNotes/PlayStation version)

[[AC: Conpoota Seftwar/Herdwar]]

[[AC: Censooma herdwar]]

[[AC: Visual Tele Action in the Live]]

->'''Paul Gretton''': The story on the back makes no sense.\\
'''Robert Martinez''': No.\\
'''Paul Gretton''': "Anna’s sister cold snow queen to her under a curse". And so it goes on; it doesn’t make any sense at all.

[[AC: Litter Archer]]

->''Many experiments have been conducted in which an English sentence (preferably an idiom) is translated by one computer into Russian, then a second computer translates the Russian back to English. The purpose of the experiment is to see how much distortion results. In one case they tried the idiom: “The spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak.” What came back was: “The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten.”''

->'''Bernardo''': How quiet guard?\\
'''Francisco''': I am looking for the excitement of the mouse.

->''CONGLATURATION!!!''
->''YOU HAVE COMPLETED A GREAT[[note]]misspelt as "GRATE" in the Japanese release[[/note]] GAME.''
->''AND PROOVED THE JUSTICE OF OUR CULTURE.
->''NOW GO AND REST OUR HEROES!''

->There's a noble American girl named Rose
->She tried to get away
->From her '''"[[ArrangedMarriage arranged married]]"''',
->Oh oh naaaye!

->At the same time she met Jack
->[[PressXToNotDie Tap A quickly to not die as fast!]]
->He '''"lighted on her life"'''
->[[SexualEuphemism He lighted on a couple of her other things, too!]]
->They were also '''"fall in love with each other"'''
->Hoo hoo hoo!

->''Because nutrition sucked by the huge monsters, sor all the plants have shriving one. This atmosphere of peace has been destoyed.''
->''The green land is becoming to wasteland. And peoples lives were also threaten by monsters.''
->''Till one day, a little hero called Jony has come up. He must defeat all these monsters by his magic flower.''

->''Vegeta, Yamcha, Tien Shin, and Clearin, they had survived!''
-->--''Anime/DragonBallZ History Of Trunks'', during a scene of them very much '''not''' surviving.

-->--''Anime/DragonBallZHistoryOfTrunks'', during a scene of them very much '''not''' surviving.

-->- [[https://www.thpatch.net/wiki/Touhou_Patch_Center:About THCRAP wiki explaining one of the project's reasons for existence]], referencing the older, static system of patches.

->The whole idea was born after witnessing yet another translation debate on touhouwiki.net. After a while, you realize that Touhou translations never seem to be final.
->No matter how long a particular translation of some aspect has endured, years later, someone with perhaps a bit more knowledge of Japanese culture can come in, debate it, and eventually have it changed. During these debates, people are sometimes shocked about how little sense the original translation made or how it distorted the original meaning, and thus, the general perception of the content. That's why touhouwiki.net's policy openly encourages this process.
->In the end, the wiki page everyone looks at is edited and the correction is made. And all of this would be fine if we were merely translating pieces of literature.
->But we're talking about games here. The English patches stay frozen at a certain state and are never updated - because their original developers continue to believe in their own translation, they considered the job done as soon as they've released the patch, or even have long abandoned this fandom in case of the older games.
-->-- [[https://www.thpatch.net/wiki/Touhou_Patch_Center:About THCRAP wiki explaining the project's raison d'être]]

->"I know those words, but that sign makes no sense"

->[[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow He lighted on a couple of her other things, too!]]

-->--'''WebVideo/JonTron''' singing about ''Titenic''[[note]]a [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct bootleg]] video game based on ''Film/{{Titanic}}''[[/note]] [[note]]Bootleg products in general have a ''lot'' of Blind Idiot Translations, since a lot of them are made in China (which is infamous for its poor regulation of legitimate businesses to begin with) with as many shortcuts being taken in their production as is humanly possible.[[/note]]

-->-- '''Chris [=McLean=]''', ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Pahkitew Island]]'', "[[Recap/TotalDramaSoUhThisIsMyTeam So, Uh, This Is My Team?]]

->''This is what happens when you use the online translator.''
-->-- '''[=Chris McLane=]''', ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama: Pahkitew Island'', after failing to correctly translate the teams' names

-->-- ''From "Familiar Dialogues" in ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30411/pg30411-images.html English As She Is Spoke]] ''by Pedro Carolino'' [[note]]who did not speak English. He translated his book from Portugese by way of a French-English phrasebook. To make matters worse, he didn't speak French.[[/note]]

->''"THIS is what I call frue destruction!"''

-->--'''WebVideo/JonTron''' singing about ''Titenic''[[note]]a [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct bootleg]] video game based on ''Film/{{Titanic}}''[[/note]] [[note]]Bootleg products in general have a ''lot'' of Blind Idiot Translations, since a lot of them are being made in China with as many shortcuts being taken in their production as is humanly possible.[[/note]]

->''Pardon my French, but this was a goddamn mess. The SF title, "Murder Hollace," was laughable. I'm going to try to break down what happened here. First, there was a transpositional error in the game itself: the designer tried to write "murder holes" phonetically, but transcribed "holes" slightly incorrectly. This was misread by the SF translator as "Hollace," and from there... I honestly don't know what happened. I've left in their translation note below, but for whatever reason they concluded that "murder hollace" was to "trap yourselves and the enemy in a single room and fight them to the death". Problem is, [[PerfectlyCromulentWord "hollace" isn't a word]]. The OED, the definitive record of the English language, has no record of it. Common online dictionaries have no record of it. It is, quite simply, not a word - and I have no idea what [[InsaneTrollLogic logic]] led the translator to conclude that it referred to some kind of Creator/SunTzu-esque "desperate ground" notion.''

->Many experiments have been conducted in which an English sentence (preferably an idiom) is translated by one computer into Russian, then a second computer translates the Russian back to English. The purpose of the experiment is to see how much distortion results. In one case they tried the idiom: “The spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak.” What came back was: “The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten."
-->--Raymond Smullyan, ''What is the Name of This Book?''

-->-- The tagline of a Buyee portable DVD player/UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem emulator that was part of the second wave of [[Music/SouljaBoy SouljaGame]] consoles[[note]]best read in a voice that sounds like [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit]] doing a [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Homsar]] impression[[/note]]

-->-- '''[=Chris McLane=]''', ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama: Pakhitew Island'', after failing to correctly translate the teams' names

-->--''Fake Britain'', featuring counterfeit ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' merchandise

-->--'''WebVideo/JonTron''' singing about ''Titenic''[[note]]a [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct bootleg]] video game based on ''Film/Titanic'' (bootleg products in general have a ''lot'' of Blind Idiot Translations, since a lot of them are being made in China with as many shortcuts being taken in their production as is humanly possible)[[/note]]

->From her '''"arranged married"''',

->Tap A quickly to not die as fast!

->He lighted on a couple of her other things, too!

-->--'''WebVideo/JonTron''' singing about ''VideoGame/{{Titenic}}''