# Does English get translated as badly as other languages?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-english-get-translated-as-badly-as-other-languages/593377>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 19, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-english-get-translated-as-badly-as-other-languages/593377 "2011-08-19T22:05:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-english-get-translated-as-badly-as-other-languages/593377/21 "2011-08-21T14:58:39Z")

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Subtitles are my favorite. I’m a native US English speaker, but I look for lots of Spanish subtitles for the benefit of my wife, and many of them are hilarious (I know this because I’m fairly fluent in Spanish thanks for my wife). I just can’t think of a specific example right now. There are _so many_!

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**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-english-get-translated-as-badly-as-other-languages/593377/22 "2011-08-21T16:50:08Z")

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> [@Balthisar](#):
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> Subtitles are my favorite. I’m a native US English speaker, but I look for lots of Spanish subtitles for the benefit of my wife, and many of them are hilarious (I know this because I’m fairly fluent in Spanish **thanks for my wife** ). I just can’t think of a specific example right now. There are _so many_!

(empasis added). I think you just provided one. 😃

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