#germanigans

[mzwraum]

So, in the German version of 1x02 of GO when Crowley shoves Aziraphale against the wall he says “nett ist die kleine Schwester von freundlich” (“nice is friendly’s little sister”) and I have absolutely no idea why they didn’t use the actual version of that saying (“nett ist die kleine Schwester von Scheiße”/“nice is shit’s little sister”) because clearly, Crowley would only ever use the original version of that saying.

[mzwraum]

Perks of being a German fangirl

The additional analytical potential of the time/place/manner of your OTP switching from the formal to the informal you.

(Less frequent nowadays when the informal you is becoming more common but still)

(Also, in case of translations from other languages: The added factor of „did the translators even give the point of change any bit of thought or is this by accident?“)

[mzwraum]

#Germanbilingualproblems

Reading  “stirb!” when German article “die” is standing alone for stylistic reasons. 

Also, reading “Lügen!” when confronted with the campaign “Lies!” that distributes Qurans... 

[acrimsonphoenix]

On top of all the awesome decisions made in Wonder Woman that were already widely discussed, I have another one to throw out there: 

The Germans speak actual German. As in, they finally hired *native speakers* for all German being spoken. Which you’d think would be ... normal, given how easy it is nowadays to get actors from across the world?! But it isn’t. Seriously. Most times, they train some English speaking actors to speak German, and it’s just so clear that it’s not a native speaker speaking (don’t even get me started on what they are then saying, bc the wording in German is hardly ever what a typical German would say either). And the German accents by the English speaking actors weren’t too terrible either. 

So another KUDOS! to Patty Jenkins for actually hiring German people to say German things and putting effort into what German things were said!

I know there was also a lot of stuff spoken in the scenes in Belgium which may have been Flemish or Dutch (not quite sure which as I don’t know either language) - anyone out there who can tell whether those dialogues were also done properly? 

[rhoalajak]

As a German, I should have known that Kilgrave's name is Kevin. 😂

[rhoalajak]

The ability of Germans to butcher movie titles never fails to amaze me.

Yeah, let's completely change the expectation of the plot because we want to be "catchy" and funny.

[rhoalajak]

I feel sorry for all the countries that have the Coca Cola Christmas Truck ad but not an actual tour of the Coca Cola truck.

That's just mean. Are you guys ok?