• ancap shark@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    The Brazilian translation I own replaced him with Thomas Jefferson. Kinda random but I found it funny

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      6 months ago

      What’s the translation of the previous “antelope/ant eloping” pun? I can’t imagine that works in other languages.

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        6 months 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

        • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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          6 months ago

          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…

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            6 months ago

            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?

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              6 months ago

              Lincoln is famous because he was the president during the US civil war and abolished slavery. This happened a century after us independence/founding.