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@ Anesor	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:40 AM) Ivan is poular here
@ Windrider Shiva	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:40 AM) That
@ Anesor	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:39 AM) well this is the same problem when a writer is writing a semi medieval fantasy and has someone 'going ballistic' or being a 'loose cannon' The one subgenre I used to read a lot, regency romances, it's plain the writer is writing the culture as if today's sports and crazes were present in regency
@ Windrider Shiva	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:38 AM) They are cognates... but "Yvan" (FR, Ee-vahn) does NOT fit in a Norwegian show (Eivind was the name.)
@ Anesor	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:37 AM) the trouble is, are they cognates or just sort of close? John-Juan
@ Windrider Shiva	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:37 AM) Gotta keep the locale in mind.
@ Windrider Shiva	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:36 AM) Yes, but I was watching a Norwegian show.
@ Windrider Shiva	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:36 AM) It tears away from the locale.
@ Anesor	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:35 AM) Else here would be said as Elsa...
@ Anesor	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:34 AM) though if it's almost exactly the same, maybe not so much
@ Windrider Shiva	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:34 AM) I was watching a Norwegian TV movie and they had translated the names. It was SO annoying. One of the women was named "Else" in Norwegian, but it was said as "Elsa". "Arne" (NW) became "Arnaud" (FR). Worse when the name is DISPLAYED in the movie, on paper... but pronounced another way.
@ Anesor	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:33 AM) yeah. not something I realized before, but it's silly
@ Windrider Shiva	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:32 AM) I'm an auditive person. I don't mind accents, and I don't mind different languages... but I draw the line at translating names.
@ Anesor	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:32 AM) names are usually important and should be the last thing to change in translations
@ Anesor	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:31 AM) I certainly don't expect a story in Italy to have Sanchos and Yukis
@ Anesor	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:30 AM) ewwww
@ Anesor	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:30 AM) we like subtitles here, because my older mother can't always hear dialogue. this way we don't miss what is happening (assuming no typos)
@ Windrider Shiva	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:29 AM) Also because they tend to localize every single thing, things that lose meanings over translations... like names. I'm watching a Swedish show, I expect Swedish names and locales...
@ Anesor	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:29 AM) ah, all our lower tier are najor networks. PBS is the only educational channel and they don't have much history anymore or drama
@ Windrider Shiva	:	(26 May 2013 - 04:28 AM) (Which, as a Quebecer, is fucking annoying; highly different accents and expressions. I'd rather have those subbed than dubbed, but our population doesn't seem to like subbed things too much.)

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