lunaoscuradork:

German’s unfortunate inability to have separate words for friend (“Freund”) and boyfriend (also “Freund”)

lead to Eve’s line “this is my boyfriend Ares.”

being translated as “this is my lover Ares”

which doesn’t have quite the same meaning as “boyfriend”, but more like “this is my side hoe”

and unfortunately I laughed way too loud in an otherwise quiet theater 🫠

Ok I really love translation details like this

Someday i wanna collect fun facts about Tron translations. Did you know “Tron” means “throne” in Swedish? Do you wonder how they avoided having the Throne Ship in Legacy be called the Tron ship? Well, turns out they called it the Crown Ship (Kronskeppet), thus keeping a similar sound and similar meaning… but avoiding the hilarious implication that the ship was yet another thing (like the city) that Flynn named after Tron but apparently didn’t give poor infuriated Clu enough permissions to change.

And.

Since German is one of the languages I’ve studied a lot, this one is delightful to me– and also makes me think about how very specific German can be in so many other areas, while being vague as hell about romance and friendship.

(another example of this! In English you can say “man and wife,” using “man” like a synonym for “husband.” In Spanish you can say “marido y mujer,” using the word for “woman” like a synonym for “wife.” In German YOU DO BOTH. “Mann und Frau” is “man and woman” and it’s also “husband and wife.” THERE IS NO WAY to say “my man” or “my woman” without possibly being interpreted as “this person is married to me.”)

(I like to think German correctly clocked that relationships ARE just too complicated and messy and overlapping and un-categorizable to even bother trying to make up extra-specific words for them.)

(I don’t know if Programs would do the same. In the past, I’ve speculated they have an ancient-Greek-like assortment of different words for love… but even so, I acknowledged that the definitions of those would be hazy in their lives, as they are in ours.)