mardi, mars 08, 2005

Helloz

Helloz dear friends

I was just watching Discovery Channel today, y'know my sucky cable operator has this policy of not showing such channels in English and I, have to watch them in Hindi.. It gets a bit irritating sometimes.
you see, one has to listen to dubbed dialogues which is not well viewable.. Its better if they give subtitles
Plus, these people, sometimes do the literal translation of the words without actually thinking what the whole sentence would mean
eg. in English
On discovery, they were telecasting Junkyard Wars.. and this guy was getting his haircut done from his teammate.. The haircut made him look better so the woman on Junkyard wars said," You look really cool like this"
Great.. we all know what cool here means.. It means, the dude was looking better and well good
so, the pinheads at the translation department, do their job well(just translating)
Here's how the sentence came out in Hindi ," Tum toh ekdum thande lag rahe ho".. i agree that this sentence tries to convey the meaning of cool but it is not right.. and im not kidding.. the woman did call the man thanda.. i mean, is this a Coke commercial?. is the man available for PAANCH? no he isnt
it would have been better if they used the word Bindaas or Jhakkaas(this by the way, was part of abhishek suri's email id).. gawd!.
or it could also have been a collection of different words, doesnt have to be just one word.
for eg again.
its Table Tennis in English.. but what do they call it in Hindi
guess?
Hari mez par de tapa-tap ley tapa-tap (on a green table, give tapatap and take tapatap)
even my english translation doesnt make sense, it shouldnt!
Question for you people: Whats Cricket in Hindi?
anyways
its good to take a break between exams.
Rhea, certainly has some stinkingly rich friends(who don't know what the colour of their car is?)

This post was randomly selected by my brain and the thoughts and ideas described here are also in random orderm and may be dumb/stupid/ confusing.. BUT HEY.. IM GIVING MY BOARDS
anyways
gotta go
signing off
G
P.S.: Mr. Skarans and other members of the Grammar regulation department, I request you to not consider these posts for penalisation

3 commentaires:

Anonyme a dit…

hey.. i completely agree.. its so horrible.. and u know wat the wierd part is.. most of the people who can afford tvs can speak english for crying out loud!! besides.. i mean u can have hindi channels but discovery in hindi is a bit much.. and now theyv turned nickelodeon into hindi as well.. my life is over.. and pogo.. mr bean in hindi is really pathetic and the whole thing about mr bean is rowan atkinson's voice.. but apparently that is a gigantic misconception on my part.. sorry for making the comment so long g (string).. but im extremely touchy wen it comes to this topic.. hehe.. rashi xxx

Anonyme a dit…

i once watched a program where they called killer whales as khuni whales.
made me wonder what they were getting at.there must be a better name than khuni for calling them.

ThinkingWanderer a dit…

hey gudi....
chill yaar..plates mat todo...im chillin'..nthn like tht:D