#funny translation

[tabanosa]

What on the X japan translation is this😭? (some kind of film director was being interviewed about "Rose of pain")

[indieeesleaze]

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[nerdcousin]

As a German-speaker, I feel appalled by the misinterpretation of the word Eichhörnchen.

(Once you are able to pronounce this word as a non-native German-speaker, you are unbeatable, btw.)

Eichhörnchen (squirrel) comes up frequently when talking about funny literal translation, being translated as ‘oak croissant’.

While this is not technically incorrect, and the German word for oak is indeed ‘Eiche’ (and yes, Germans capitalise all nouns), it’s really not the direct translation most native German-speakers would give.

You see, the suffix ‘-chen’, which doesn’t really exist in other languages as far as I know, is the Verniedlichung. The most accurate way I know to translate that is the ‘cutifier’. For instance, if instead of talking of a ‘Hund’ (dog), you talk of a ‘Hündchen’, it will be assumed you are talking of a cute, usually smaller dog.

(Note that certain vowels may be replaced with an Umlaut. U->Ü, A->Ä, O->Ö)

The word Horn (cutified: Hörnchen) means horn. Wile this is occasionally used to describe a Croissant (or any other horn-/sickle shaped backed good), they are usually referred to by their French name, if slightly differently pronounced.

So the most accurate literal translation of ‘Eichhörnchen’ is ‘cute little oak horn’, which frankly, I find even more amusing.

[waynebates]

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