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From: John Smith<JS@tardis.com>
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Subject: Re: Ping JS - Ref: MP Second Reply
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:27:04 +1100
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On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:20:27 +1100, John Smith<JS@tardis.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:29:24 -0800, anatol <anatol@somewhere.com>
>wrote:
>
>>John,
>>
>>I did watch MP yesterday using the srt you sent. I may have problems
>>with this one. Two things were immediately noticeable:
>>
>>1. The graphical subtitles didn't always produce the correct letter
>>of the alphabet in the srt. Some of it is obvious and could easily be
>>transliterated. But some is less obvious inasmuch as much of the
>>vocabulary appears to be local slang/idiom and may be spelled
>>correctly but the word isn't within my vocabulary or I can't
>>phonetically relate it to a word in formal French.
>>
>>2. A lot of the dialog is based on ethnic put-downs that I've had no
>>exposure to. It may be that I can come up with something by
>>researching various postings to Twitter/Facebook but the problem there
>>would be that those would all in French and would probably be used in
>>some flaming wars and thus would not provide a clue as to the meaning.
>>Another possibility would be for me to search in some dictionaries of
>>current-day colloquialisms.
>>
>>Anyway, this is just a heads-up that I wouldn't feel comfortable
>>translating something that doesn't convey the original meaning. I'll
>>be better able to tell what problems I'll encounter when I actually
>>make an attempt at some formal translation.
>>
>>Anatol
>
>
>Thanks for looking at it again Anatol. I had a lot of trouble ripping
>the subs from the bluray. I had understood it was fairly straight
>forward but for this one it certainly wasn't. I keep and eye out for
>for posted subs but none have appeared yet. I am sure they will
>eventually. Next time I will just get the dvd.
>
>I think the best thing to do is to just wait.
>
>John
I have had another fiddle with extracting the subs. I first made a mkv
rip with hardcoded French subs to help me correcting the subs. I found
though that the idx/vobsubs subs I was able to extract (and which will
not extract readily or convert into a sup file to temporarily add to a
dvd to rip normally) work perfectly well with GOM and VLC (I have a
all white avi or dvd for this purpose).
What this means is that I am going through the subs I posted to you
line by line correcting them. Most of the errors however (I am about
half way) are incorrect accents. There are a few other things such Cui
instead of Oui. I am not sure it will be much help to you but I will
send it to you when I have finished anyway. I noticed the some of the
slang you were talking about. It reminded me a bit of Quebec French
you have been translating.
I am very patient waiting for subs. Two classic examples were Un
chateaux en Espagne and La belle ete 1914 both of which I had for
years before I got subs.
John
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