# Worst dubbing ie butchering of a movie for TV to cut out foul language or adult stuff

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**Created:** [June 30, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-dubbing-ie-butchering-of-a-movie-for-tv-to-cut-out-foul-language-or-adult-stuff/116683 "2002-06-30T08:15:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-dubbing-ie-butchering-of-a-movie-for-tv-to-cut-out-foul-language-or-adult-stuff/116683/121 "2005-10-31T22:24:39Z")

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> [@Osakadave](#):
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> A general dubbing/sub-titleing screw up from English to Japanese is to translate the swear words to completely innocuos japanese words, with “yappari” (loosely, “of course”) being about the most popular.

Recently in Buenos Aires I was flipping channels and was watching some US movie with the Spanish subtitles on. Whenever somoen would say “What the Fuck” or some other untranslatable exclamation it was subtitled as “El Diablo!”

I use that alot at home now.

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