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A screencap from last night's episode of Chuck during a scene set in Germany. They brutally translated everything in sight...

Slight overtranslation

Date: 23/2/11 01:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
Sorry, I'm not sure I get the joke.

Date: 23/2/11 01:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
There is no German word for popcorn but they translated it, anyway, literally "popping (or banging) corn". The bit next to it, "Minute Mehr" (lit. minute more) doesn't really make sense, either, or at least isn't something you'd find on a German microwave.

Date: 23/2/11 08:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
OK, got it now.

Date: 23/2/11 09:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bateleur.livejournal.com
So was this a deliberate joke, or were they just too lazy to order a real German microwave?!

Date: 23/2/11 11:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
I have no idea, most likely the latter. They could have asked the person who wrote the German dialogue for that scene. That was actually fine, it was just read by people who clearly had never read German before.

Date: 23/2/11 10:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] devalmont.livejournal.com
Is it just 'popcorn', then?

I'm reminded of the microwave in 'Snakes on a Plane', which if you look carefully has buttons for 'Start' 'High' 'Low' 'Defrost' and 'Snake'!

Date: 23/2/11 11:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
Yep.
Hahaha!

Date: 24/2/11 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] van-bauseneick.livejournal.com
knallender mais macht mir angst. klingt nach knallgasreaktion.
warum nimmt man nicht einfach eine deutsche mikrowelle? oder guckt kurz im internet, da sind die manchmal sogar abgebildet...

Date: 24/2/11 11:49 am (UTC)

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