In the spirit of Backstroke of the West, we have...  ...4 screencaps of a Harry Potter movie with English subtitles translated from the Chinese-dubbed dialogue. Is i...  ...ation, or just a weak effort? Does the person who subtitles DVDs even know English? Maybe they don’t kn...

[https://youtu.be/KHZ8ek-6ccc] (YouTube link)Arman...  ...anish, you’ll have to rely on the brilliant subtitles . If you understand Spanish, you will probably hav...  ...ou will probably have to watch twice, to keep the subtitles and the actual story straight. If you can neither...

When Guardians of the Galaxy was translated into Chinese, they cut some corners. The title of the movie shown in China is now Interplanetary Unusual Attacking Team. The insults have been changed to endearments, and other...

If you’ve followed Neatorama for a while, yo...  ...ogical, like the condition that causes you to see subtitles in real life.It happened to septuagenarian Doroth...

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc_12rJz7A4](Video Link)Last month, artist and designer Syver Lauritsen was on a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok to Beijing. A few of the passengers got into a fight. What are they sayin...

Buzzfeed has a collection of 27 screengrabs of various movies, cartoons, and TV shows with English translations that will make you laugh. Some of them make it obvious which is the translator's first language.And then the...

Adding subtitles is work best left done to professionals. Professi...  ...que has a collection of screen captures featuring subtitles so bad they deserve to be kept for posterity. Som...

Blockbuster movies are often released in several nations at once, and we are used to selecting from several languages on DVDs by now. How much work goes into making other languages work in film? Slate explains how they d...