Bad translations?

Underling Linda·May 10, 2017·1 votes·294 views

Hello guys, i like to compare the voices of the champs, im czech and i really love the czech dubbing and today i played a game and had Xayah in the enemy team, and i killed her once, and she said Do hajzlu... which translates as Fuck this... I was pretty surprised to hear that, im not sure, but i think in the english dub she says Screw this... ? Another one, which is an old one, at the time when GP got his rework, in the german dub, when he has an interraction with MF, he said: Miss Fortune? Mehr wie Mist.....Stuck (Miss Fortune? More like cu...nt) Seriously, im not sure what to think about this 2 translations, do you guys know any more?

1 Comments

NinjaGuy69May 10, 20171 votes

This is probably going to get moved to the Story, Art & Sound board but I'll post my thoughts anyway. I personally am not familiar with how strongly profanity is censored in Europe but my assumption would be that there are less restrictions on crude language in Europe than in places like China or even the United States. You also have to take into consideration that sometimes, there aren't direct translations for certain words or phrases in between two languages, so when the English dialogue is localized into another language, they have to use a similar word or phrase, which sometimes causes the meaning to be lost in translation.

Either that, or Riot is just bad at translation. Not sure, but that would be my guess.