[duffycommaryan]

Language is incredibly complex. I remember a TikTok from a bilingual English-Korean speaker comparing the English subtitles from a Squid Game scene to what was actually being said by the characters. The nuance and info density lost in translation made the subtitles feel completely remedial. Americans were basically watching a different show altogether.

[ClimaxGravely]

I'm by no means a native level Japanese speaker but I'm frequently surprised at how off Japanese-English subtitles can be.

[alex0015]

I was watching the Netflix show The Empress with Chinese subtitles that did a pretty good job translating the German. I switched to English subs for one episode and couldn't stop telling the people I was watching with "That's not what he said! That's completely different!"

[ClimaxGravely]

Oh weird! I wonder why that is. I wonder if they just put more effort into translating to Chinese? Very curious/interesting.