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World's worst translation
Siloh
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October 2002

Let's see who can recall the world's worst single-line English translation.
I'll start with a classic. :)

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

23yrold3yrold
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March 2001
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Any given Holy Sword attack description given in Final Fantasy Tactics.

"Life is short...Bury! Steady Sword!"
"The devil's spirit of restlessness... Split Punch!"

Etc.

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Ultio
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April 2001

Those tactics attack descriptions always sounded cool to me. :/

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Chris Katko
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January 2002
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What's "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" from?

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Marcello
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January 2002
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Nothing beats:

[Your great you escaped the cat's lair and got all the cats back to normal.You One.]

Of course, that wasn't lost in translation. That was me not know how to write when I was 10. I'm dumb!.

Marcello

gnolam
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March 2002
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Etwinox: Zero Wing.

All I have to say about this topic is: You! Invaders! Get you the hot bullets of shotgun to die! ;D
And with a link to Zany Video Game Quotes, this whole thread becomes rather pointless ;)

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CGamesPlay
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July 2002
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Zero Wing? I thought it was Tunak Tunak Tun?

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Maverick
Member #2,337
May 2002

How about "A winner is you." from Dragon Warrior?

gnolam said:

And with a link to Zany Video Game Quotes, this whole thread becomes rather pointless

Maybe, but it's fun discussing poor translation.

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ImLeftFooted
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October 2003
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On a Korean kitchen knife:
Warning: keep out of children.

Siloh
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October 2002

Quote:

On a Korean kitchen knife:
Warning: keep out of children.

As amusing as that broken translation may be, it is still good advice. :)

ReyBrujo
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January 2001
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All your base are belong to us, for those who do not know what that is... OMG, I played the original version of the game! cower in a corner

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Chris Katko
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January 2002
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That's what I originally thought. But then people started saying it was from something else.

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kazzmir
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December 2001
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why hasnt this been mentioned yet.

DanTheKat
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March 2002
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Because we didn't pay attention and figured this thread was about "worst GAME translation".

And pretty bad translations would be every chat message in Multiplayer FPS games.

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Derezo
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April 2001
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Yeah.. multiplayer FPS games have really bad chat messages :P

Reminds me of the one strongbad episode (no time to look it up, I think it's called run a mile). Strongbad is typing, and eventually every single word is a letter in an acronym. ::)

Brain -> Crunch for time factor -> Fingers -> Keyboard.. goes through a very big mess.. Sometimes the conversion from brain -> fingers suffers badly from time contraints.. If not, the fingers -> keyboard conversion method is flawed. ;)

Anyway.. I'm bad at finding these myself. I'd have probably read "All your base are belong to us" and just went with it without a thought, because I knew what it meant :P Brings me to 23's examples.. I just realized the steady sword one, heh..

"He who controls the stuffing controls the Universe"

Adol
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May 2002
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Quote:

Any given Holy Sword attack description given in Final Fantasy Tactics.

"Life is short...Bury! Steady Sword!"
"The devil's spirit of restlessness... Split Punch!"

Etc.

/thread_hijack
But FFT for psx is still so much cooler than FFT-GBA!!!
/thread_hijack

LSd016
Member #3,561
May 2003

Bah! NOTHING beats translations to "Polish" made by Soviets (Russians, Ukrainians etc.). Instead of enjoying the game, I just ROTFL, believe me.. and it brings me a good mood till the end of the day. It's something like "Cloud, what are you do, there's be need an ancient key installed with the wall", but FAR WORSE, cause pl language is a lot more complex beast.

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corruptor
Member #3,860
September 2003

My favorites have always been Blazing Star:

You Fail It
Your Skill Is Not Enough

And Ninja Commando:

Congratulation!
You have defended the history from enemy.

Both were on Neo Geo...

23yrold3yrold
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March 2001
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Quote:

/thread_hijack
But FFT for psx is still so much cooler than FFT-GBA!!!
/thread_hijack

plzdiekthx

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LSd016
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May 2003

The japs like their bad english so much they start to misspell words on purpose:

http://www.engrish.com/image/engrish/victoly.jpg

well, if you can't beat them, join them, i guess ;)

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23yrold3yrold
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March 2001
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I would expect "victoly", since apparently there's no 'r' in Japanese (hence, "Engrish" ;))

EDIT: Wait; I got that backwards, didn't I? No L in Japanese ... geez I'm stupid :P

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LSd016
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May 2003

to be honest, there is no REAL 'r' in english either.

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Derezo
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April 2001
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23: There's an 'r'.. it's just not pronounced that way... it's pronounced sort of like an r-l. :)

"He who controls the stuffing controls the Universe"

Andrei Ellman
Member #3,434
April 2003

Here are two lists of humourously bad translations to English.
[url http://travel.genegillminiatures.com/signs.html]
[url http://manetheren.cl.msu.edu/~vanhoose/humor/0443.html]

AE.

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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June 2000
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hmm. well about that no r or l thing, I've heard both r an l in songs and anime... Can't remember the symbol it used (or which show it was...), but I'm sure entheh remembers it... One show's intro or ending song had distinct "La"s (and it sounded like La, not Ra...)

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