Originally posted by: lordjedi
It actually looks like they used Babelfish to do the translation. Maybe someone can do the other 5 movies so we can have a full set. Do the subtitles come out similarly when they're put through the fish? Might be an interesting experiment to try.
It actually looks like they used Babelfish to do the translation. Maybe someone can do the other 5 movies so we can have a full set. Do the subtitles come out similarly when they're put through the fish? Might be an interesting experiment to try.
They probably used something like it, but it's a bit more complicated. The subtitles were generated in a ridiculous way: the English dialogue was transcribed (probably by someone whose native language is not English), then translated to Mandarin Chinese, then translated back to English. There's a lot of room for more crackpot human error in there than just a translation through Babelfish, which I think is why it's so amusing.