I love the way my favorite character keeps saying that word in the drama. Yes! The words themselves get kind of associated with the characters. (I can't imagine translating "Chu-ge," for instance, even if there were a decent English translation, because it wouldn't sound like Guo Changcheng.)
And I love to learn new things like that and pondering subtleties of translating them to other languages. Absolutely. I bet everyone in this post feels this way--I definitely do, it's one of the great pleasures of watching something in or adjacent to a different language/culture, you get not just the drama itself but also the linguistic interest, and once you learn something in one context it informs what you can understand in other scenes/dramas/etc. too.
when I watch Korean dramas on Netflix I prefer to watch them with Polish subtitles, because IMO they are better than English subtitles. Now I'm really curious about the Korean-Polish interaction and how the two languages relate (also the romanization of names must be a lot different in Polish?).
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Date: 2020-11-17 01:50 am (UTC)Yes! The words themselves get kind of associated with the characters. (I can't imagine translating "Chu-ge," for instance, even if there were a decent English translation, because it wouldn't sound like Guo Changcheng.)
And I love to learn new things like that and pondering subtleties of translating them to other languages.
Absolutely. I bet everyone in this post feels this way--I definitely do, it's one of the great pleasures of watching something in or adjacent to a different language/culture, you get not just the drama itself but also the linguistic interest, and once you learn something in one context it informs what you can understand in other scenes/dramas/etc. too.
when I watch Korean dramas on Netflix I prefer to watch them with Polish subtitles, because IMO they are better than English subtitles.
Now I'm really curious about the Korean-Polish interaction and how the two languages relate (also the romanization of names must be a lot different in Polish?).