I recently posted a Youtube video “Technically a Translation” which shows how languages are similar. However what happens when an American song is translated by a Bulgarian singer who tries to sing it in English? The following clip is what the Mariah Carey song ‘Without You’ apparently sounds like to this Bulgarian Idol wanna be. The subtitles are translating the Bulgarian into English… or something else entirely.
Technically a Translation??
March 13, 2008 By - 2 Comments
A friend showed me this ‘translation’ of an Indian music video. I’m still laughing deep, deep, deeeeep inside. The translation (or interpretation or guess or this should be on the daily show) is exactly how I feel when I’m listening into foreign conversations. You pick-up on words, those English-like words and assume that’s what they are saying. Usually you’re batting way below average, but occasionally some English words like ‘Internet’, ‘Computer’ and ‘American Idol’ are easy to spot. For this video, I do believe this is not a ‘translation’ but the Technically Foreign way Indian’s speak: