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minus-squareancap shark@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoThe Brazilian translation I own replaced him with Thomas Jefferson. Kinda random but I found it funny
minus-squareQuetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoWhat’s the translation of the previous “antelope/ant eloping” pun? I can’t imagine that works in other languages.
minus-squareancap shark@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days ago“brutamonte” (rude or big strong person) and “bruta monte” (really big mount) It’s a very bad joke, but I don’t blame the translators. How would they ever translate this bit
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoHuh, I wonder why they did that?
minus-squareancap shark@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 days agoBecause almost nobody in Brazil would know Paul Revere
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoBut they would know Thomas Jefferson? If I were tasked to choose the most famous U.S. political figures, I might have chosen Washington or Lincoln…
minus-squareEarMaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoI’m not from Brazil but from Germany and out of all the U.S. founding fathers Washington, Franklin and Jefferson were the ones I had heard of. Lincoln also, but he is not one of them, is he?
minus-squareodium@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoLincoln is famous because he was the president during the US civil war and abolished slavery. This happened a century after us independence/founding.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoNo, Lincoln wasn’t a founding father. He was just a famous president who came later.
The Brazilian translation I own replaced him with Thomas Jefferson. Kinda random but I found it funny
What’s the translation of the previous “antelope/ant eloping” pun? I can’t imagine that works in other languages.
“brutamonte” (rude or big strong person) and “bruta monte” (really big mount)
It’s a very bad joke, but I don’t blame the translators. How would they ever translate this bit
Huh, I wonder why they did that?
Because almost nobody in Brazil would know Paul Revere
But they would know Thomas Jefferson? If I were tasked to choose the most famous U.S. political figures, I might have chosen Washington or Lincoln…
I’m not from Brazil but from Germany and out of all the U.S. founding fathers Washington, Franklin and Jefferson were the ones I had heard of. Lincoln also, but he is not one of them, is he?
Lincoln is famous because he was the president during the US civil war and abolished slavery. This happened a century after us independence/founding.
No, Lincoln wasn’t a founding father. He was just a famous president who came later.