That must be the European French version. In Québec, the threat of anglicisation is too great to allow him to keep an Anglo-Saxon name like Bob, so it’d be Jean-Bertrand l’Éponge or something.
Yeah I know, but as far as I know, some shows just don’t have their name translated. For example, “Rocket Power” in French is still “Rocket Power”. So is “Adventure Time”. “Kick Buttowski”. I could go on.
And then there’s weird stuff like “les Razmokat” for “the Rugrats”, and “les Super Nanas” for “the Powerpuff Girls”. I never understood these.
Razmoket = rase-moquette, means pretty much the same thing as “rug rat” (rase-moquette is not a real french expression, but it evokes “rase-motte” which means hedgehopping)…
This is such a pet peeve of mine. My mum wanted me to watch GoT with her in German but I just couldn’t because the translated the last names. Jon Snow was Jon Schnee which is the literal German translation of snow and it’s such a mismatch with English sounding last names.
Which is doubly sad cause the German synchro is pretty damn good. As a big Lord of the Rings fan, I am so glad we’ve been spared this. Allegedly cause Tolkin knew German and actually helped with the translation. BUT they of course had to do a re-translation for some arcane reason and in the new version Sam calls Frodo “Chef”, he literally calls him his boss. I feel like there is a lot to learn from the brain of the person responsible for this. All of it highly disturbing.
King’s Landing in the german dub/book. It’s somewhat okay, “Mund” as in “River mouth”, but it’s just one of a few jarring mismatches, some names translated, others untouched, with no sense or system.
The prejudice that we are likely to mistrust or stereotype people who are different than us / not in our tribe? The one that is biologically hardwired into us and can’t only be beaten with legitimate focused effort? That shite and tired prejudice?
Holy shit, you solved it! So we tell the children everywhere that it’s not the neolithic age anymore, and they will all rightly override the old parts of their brains and not tease each other for being different!
With any luck, they’ll also realize they won’t need wisdom teeth and decide not to grow those either.
It’s ok that you have a misunderstanding about how different nationalities interact with eachother in Europe
The whole of western Europe has this level of sarcasm that an American brain can’t even fathom, and a love for their fellow Europeans that you definitely can
We will absolutely rip the piss out of eachother, and pretend we hate the very sight of eachother, then upon meeting a person of a different nationality, spend the entire night drinking and laughing and taking the piss, and the next day comparing national hangover foods
Americans read sarcasm as aggressive because they are, Europeans read sarcasm as a joke because they are 😂
You are correct. Stuff like this can be funny in the correct context like “2westerneuropean4you” or similar. But anglos repeating it on and on is not only toxic and xenophobic, it’s also incredibly unfunny and uninspired.
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