Originally posted by fafner+Aug 12 2004, 08:11 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (fafner @ Aug 12 2004, 08:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--adrian _68@Aug 12 2004, 01:44 PM
[b]Louis'74 Posted on Aug 12 2004, 02:13 AM
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You think that's bad?
Wait till you saw the pirated 80's DVDs. The subtitles of them are as evil as hell!
I almost understood the spoken japanese better than the subs.
Really! Why do these people like to tweak the subtitles in an evil way and can't really understand what good will it do to them.[/b]
That's why they are called pirates !
More seriously, that's probably because they don't speak English very well. The subs in this case are probably made by Chinese or Japanese, not by native English speaking people.[/b][/quote]
& beside that, they probably do not care about the audience's preference for acceptable vs. vulgar speech. Moreover, they might not even consider those terms as vulgar (which, BTW, literally means 'common', but has come to mean unacceptable speech).
There was a time when Rhett said, "Frankly, Scsarlet, my dear, I don't give a da**
--CENSORED--", & everybody freaked out. Then John Wayne said some similar things on screen, & met similar reactions. But 'da**
--CENSORED--' is found more than a few times in the Bible, as is pi**
--CENSORED--, meaning uri**
--CENSORED-- or uri**ation
--CENSORED--, depending upon context. It seems the people @ that time were rather hung-up about se*ual
--CENSORED-- things, but had no problems with 'pi**
--CENSORED--'.
They were so hung-up, that they could not even say se*ual
--CENSORED-- int********
--CENSORED-- & instead said "uncover the nakedness of". Now, when later generations read that, they thought it condemned mere exposure of the body, & perhaps the translators felt that by so doing (condemning exposure itself), they could better avoid people engaging in se*ual
--CENSORED-- int********
--CENSORED--ATTENTION: THIS POSTING HAS BEEN TERMINATATED BECAUSE ITS CONTENT HAS BEEN DETERMINED TO BE NAUGHTY. ITS EXCESSIVE ATTEMPTS TO USE NAUGHTY WORDS HAS ACTIVATED THIS AUTOMATIC PROTECTION. YOUR EYES HAVE THUS BEEN SPARED EXPOSURE TO THOSE NAUGHTY WORDS AND FORBIDDEN SUBJECTS.
I can't help, but somehow your post reminds me on that letter:
