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A comedy trope. An incidental character says something in a foreign language. A character who either speaks a little of the language or has a translation method attempts to explain it to the others. For some reason, they narrow it down to a few possibilities, and they have absolutely nothing in common in terms of meaning, often with one being rather reasonable in the context while the other is absurdly different. Sometimes they pin it down to the one translation but then it's just so ill fitting, they can spot it's wrong. One might wonder what kind of language could possibly have that property, but real languages are that weird—consider, for example, all the different ways a word can pick up meanings other than its original literal one, in a process known in the real world as semantic change. See also "Blind Idiot" Translation, of which that is also an example, Fun with Homophones, where a similar joke is made without any translation occurring, instead relying on similar words in the same language, or My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels, which is when there's only one translation, but the translation is completely different and unrelated. Can be seen as an unintentional instance of Lopsided Dichotomy. When it comes to cultural idioms, this becomes Blunt Metaphors Trauma. |
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Finding Nemo: "He either said to move to the back of the throat, or he wants a root beer float." | |
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Madagascar: Alex, Gloria and Melman take the NYC Subway to Grand Central to stop Marty from going to Connecticut, and Alex tries to interpret the announcement over the train's intercom. | |
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In Tales of Berseria, the ancient Avarost language has a grammar which is nothing like the current language and often requires a keen sense of intuition and unusual leaps of logic in order to truly understand the meaning. When Laphicet and Grimoirh are trying to figure out the Avarost in an ancient book, Grimoirh finds herself particularly stumped by a line which, if translated literally, states "The parent hates tomatoes, the child eggplants." | |
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In Angel, Lorne had his moment with this trope. | |
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Chuck: In "Chuck vs The Gobber", Sarah sends a message to Chuck using an electronic beeping language designed by the FBI for the two of them to communicate with each other. | |
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And in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Fight or Flight", Hoshi is trying to translate an alien recording when Trip puts in his two cents: | |
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Cheers: In "Little Carla, Happy at Last", Carla meets her future mother in-law. The woman is not impressed with Carla, and angrily storms out of the bar. Carla, who doesn't speak French, turns to Frasier to translate (reasoning that as a pompous intellectual, he must speak French). Frasier explains that she said she refused to let her son marry Carla, and would rather be dragged around by her tongue. Either that, or she called Carla a small grapefruit. | |
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Naruto: The Abridged Series: "He either said he's been hired by Disney to kill the old guy so he can't finish the bridge, or we're going out for coffee next week." | |
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales: After completing a particular story mission, Miles receives a call from Peter Parker, who's in Europe for the plot of the game. Peter says that he saw the news, but it was in an Eastern European language he's not fluent in so he thought it said that either a bridge exploded or some bagels were fumigated. Though he doesn't think that the second one fit the context. | |
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The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Travis of the Cosmos" had an alien taking over Shake's brain to communicate. Unfortunately, the alien only spoke broken Japanese. Frylock tried translating, but could only come up with a marriage proposal. | |
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We Bare Bears: In the short "Assembly Required", the Bears are trying to put together a piece of flat-packed furniture. At one point Panda tries looking up the instructions online, but can't find them in English and tries to translate from Swedish. | |
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World of Warcraft: A quest requires you to steal attack plans from an ogre tribe. When you give them to the questgiver NPC, she remarks: Bonus points: You can actually read the message yourself before turning the quest in, and the wording is vague enough that both interpretations are technically valid, though the first is (of course) more likely to be correct. And in the next quest, she sends you to get information from the ogre lieutenant: |
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Discworld: In Interesting Times, Terry Pratchett tells us that in various places around the Discworld, the word "Aargh!" can mean anything from "Your wife is a big hippo!" to "I would like to eat your foot!" to "Quick, extra boiling oil!" This creates a Running Gag throughout the book where people misinterpret other people's screams. ("I'm not even married!") This likely parodies tonal language families such as Chinese, where what would sound like one word in English could be translated in up to four completely different ways in Mandarin, depending on tone. Cantonese would have up to nine possible translations based on tone, and potentially even more since homophones still exist on top of tonality. In the same book, Rincewind is often shown cycling through different meanings of what is presumably the same phrase. It's all represented as English, but it's an accurate, and hilarious, reflection of problems non-native speakers of Chinese can have pronouncing the words/phrases they really want. For example: In Making Money, Moist and Adora try to get a translation of an inscription related to some ancient golems from the lost city of Um. According to their expert, the Umnian language depends heavily on context clues and any given passage could have multiple interpretations, but at first glance the relevant phrase is "four golden golems". This worries Moist, who's been trying to convince the people of Ankh-Morpork to abandon the gold standard. Then shortly before the golems arrive, Moist is informed the translation actually refers to "four thousand golems". Sure enough, Lord Vetinari and the various movers and shakers of Ankh Morpork are soon arguing about what to do with the small army of ten-foot tall Lost Technology golems that have surrounded the city and are awaiting orders. In Monstrous Regiment, Vimes gives the titular soldiers a thumbs-up before their court martial. Being from a very different culture, they're not sure what he means by it. One of them theorizes that it's a good luck gesture, but adds that in Klatch, it might also mean "I hope your donkey explodes." |
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Overly Sarcastic Productions: Played with in Red's video on the Welsh hero Pwyll, when Pwyll and Rhiannon are reunited with their long lost son. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: In The Bat Jar Conjecture Sheldon had to create a team and got a bunch of random people (since he could win by himself), among them the cafeteria lunch lady and another guy who, since he is not good at Spanish, could be either her son or her butcher. | |
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In Making Money, Moist and Adora try to get a translation of an inscription related to some ancient golems from the lost city of Um. According to their expert, the Umnian language depends heavily on context clues and any given passage could have multiple interpretations, but at first glance the relevant phrase is "four golden golems". This worries Moist, who's been trying to convince the people of Ankh-Morpork to abandon the gold standard. Then shortly before the golems arrive, Moist is informed the translation actually refers to "four thousand golems". Sure enough, Lord Vetinari and the various movers and shakers of Ankh Morpork are soon arguing about what to do with the small army of ten-foot tall Lost Technology golems that have surrounded the city and are awaiting orders. | |
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A mind-reading example in And Another Thing.... Thor tries to kill immortal death-seeker Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, and after doing his worst picks up a faint thought. | |
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Tatooine, Knights of the Old Republic. The player can ask HK-47 to translate the speech of a Jawa who's asking for help rescuing his tribe from the Sand People (the PC speaks Jawa so the game provides subtitles, but the Jawa's grammar is even worse than Yoda's). HK responds that there is a 98% chance that he is indeed asking you for assistance with rescuing his tribe. The remaining 2% is the chance that "the diminutive organic is merely looking for trouble and needs a good blasting. This may be wishful thinking on my part, Master". | |
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In Sonic Colors, Tails attempts to build a translating device for the Wisps. It... doesn't work well at firstnote This only applies to the Wii and HD versions; it works perfectly from the get-go in the DS version. | |
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One episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show has the Petries inadvertently hiring a live-in maid, a Spanish girl named Maria. Rob, having taken a couple of semesters of Spanish in high school, can (with great effort) communicate with her and translate some of her words. At one point, the Petries successfully communicate to Maria that they can't keep her, and she runs away screaming "Me tiro en el mar! Me tiro en el mar!" Laura asks Rob what she said, and he responds that it was either that she's going to throw herself in the ocean (the correct translation) or that she's going to the movies. | |
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Neverwinter Nights 2: Your resident eccentric gnome, Grobnar, attempts to translate the word the githyanki keep calling you, but fails. It most directly translates as "shard-bearer" (meaning the shard of the Sword of Gith that you don't know at this point is embedded in your chest), but more fully "one who stole a silver sword and broke it to hide their crime". | |
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In Sergio Aragonés Destroys DC, Batman sees the bat-signal in the sky: | |
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In Chopping Block, Butch thinks a French speaker is either telling him to kill for Beelzebub, or asking where the bathroom is. Being a deranged serial killer, he opts for the first "to be safe." And despite all logic suggesting the contrary, he actually guessed right. | |
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The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night: Spyro and Sparx have just fought off a group of apes who were attacking the temple, when they encounter the Assassin, whose voice is incredibly muffled sue to his large helmet. He tells them to prepare to die, but the two aren't quite sure if he said that or if he wanted them to repair a pie. Later in the game, the duo encounter the Assassin again. He announces that it's time for them to feel some pain, but Sparks thinks he wants to steal his brain. |
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Milo Murphy's Law: | |
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In a Dragon Magazine strip of The Order of the Stick, Vaarsuvius tries to translate a draconic inscription on a statue, and concludes that charging it with magical energy will open mystic portal. On attempting this, however... | |
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Stargate SG-1: finding an ancient inscription, Daniel admits his translation is a bit rusty, but he thinks it means "The place of our legacy," then admits it could also mean "the piece of our leg," but in context, the first makes more sense. | |
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From the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Reckoning": In the end, the Bajorans don't really suffer horribly... but Kira is seen eating a fruit salad near the beginning of the episode. |
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In Interesting Times, Terry Pratchett tells us that in various places around the Discworld, the word "Aargh!" can mean anything from "Your wife is a big hippo!" to "I would like to eat your foot!" to "Quick, extra boiling oil!" This creates a Running Gag throughout the book where people misinterpret other people's screams. ("I'm not even married!") This likely parodies tonal language families such as Chinese, where what would sound like one word in English could be translated in up to four completely different ways in Mandarin, depending on tone. Cantonese would have up to nine possible translations based on tone, and potentially even more since homophones still exist on top of tonality. | |
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In Monstrous Regiment, Vimes gives the titular soldiers a thumbs-up before their court martial. Being from a very different culture, they're not sure what he means by it. One of them theorizes that it's a good luck gesture, but adds that in Klatch, it might also mean "I hope your donkey explodes." | |
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In the Pinky and the Brain episode "Around the World in 80 Narfs", Brain accidentally upsets a group of Italians. Pinky pulls out his phrase book and says something to them. He then tells Brain that he either said "We're sorry" or "You have the smell of fish". Naturally, it was the insult. | |
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: When you help your dad with the animals for the third time, he runs a test to try translating what the trippets are saying. He says that they're either saying "kill all humans" or "linguini sportsball". | |
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101 Dalmatians: Colonel the sheepdog tries translating what he heard from the Twilight Bark. | |
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Star Trek examples: From the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Reckoning": In the end, the Bajorans don't really suffer horribly... but Kira is seen eating a fruit salad near the beginning of the episode. From the 30th anniversary special skit with Captain Janeway and the cast of Frasier: And in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Fight or Flight", Hoshi is trying to translate an alien recording when Trip puts in his two cents: |
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My Friends Tigger & Pooh: In "Stuck Be a Piglet," Piglet is covered in dried mud and can only talk out of the side of his mouth. He's also stuck in the dried up mud puddle and one point, Darby asks him how he's doing. In "Too Many Helpings of Tigger," Pooh claims to be able to speak squirrel. However, when Tigger provides the squirrels with a big bag of haycorns to make up for an earlier mistake, Pooh comments "He said 'thank you'. Or was it 'pancake'?" Darby giggles at the happy squirrel, saying it looks like "thank you" to her. |
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The Emperor's Gift: While speaking to the ancient Space Wolves dreadnought Bjorn the Fell-Handed, the protagonist makes a reference to the God-Emperor of Mankind. | |
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NCIS: From the season three episode "Boxed In": "The Meat Puzzle", when talking about Ducky's mother: |
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Animorphs: Ax does something like this while the kids are in fly morphnote smaller animals generally have less acute senses than larger ones for biophysical reasons: Since the Visser actually does have a brother he's been trying to hunt down and is part of a species capable of faster-than-light travel, the second translation isn't actually that far-fetched. When Polo introduces himself by slapping his chest and saying his name, Marco, who is translating, says that that's either his name or his favorite brand of shirt. |
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Tangled: The Series: Played straight in "The Lost Treasure of Herz der Sonne", when Feldspar translates the inscription of the treasure map. | |
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One episode of Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? saw Ivy and Zack transported to Mongolia and confronted by a couple of horsemen, whom Zack tries to speak to in Chinese. The horsemen respond by charging the two with swords. | |
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On The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius Sheen did this once, when he believed he could read hieroglyphics simply because they looked similar to writing from his favorite TV show. They clearly were not the same. They play with this by having Sheen start off by reading it in a fashion that could believably be called translating it, and just when everyone's starting to go slack-jaw in shock, Sheen's story veers off into... well, Sheen being Sheen, proving he had no idea what he was doing. | |
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The Hunt for Red October: Said by the sender of the message instead of the recipient in this case. While sending instructions to the Red October that the US is prepared to help them defect, Captain Mancuso comments that his Morse code is so rusty "I'm probably sending him measurements on Playmate of the Month." | |
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One Dilbert cartoon has an e-mail version of this trope. The Marketing Department gets a typo-ridden e-mail from Wally that is telling them to either "launch the new product" or "eat lunch with a penguin." | |
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Rookie from Club Penguin drives Klutzy off from attacking the EPF's systems after mistaking Herbert's computer for an arcade. Rookie manages to simulate "crab-talk" with a typewriter, only to be unsure afterwards if he either told Klutzy that this wasn't a video game, or he threatened that the EPF is armed with peanut butter. Either way, it somehow worked. | |
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Happens more than once in Dogstar, usually with Gran doing the translation: | |
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In a Peanuts strip, Charlie Brown comes home from the sandlot after the last game of the season, and tells Sally, who is watching TV, that he's going to put some Neat's Foot Oil on his glove and put it away for the winter. When Linus calls and asks where he is, Sally answers that "He said something about how neat it is to wear gloves on your feet in the winter." | |
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In The Heroes of Olympus' second book, when Percy first arrives at the Roman camp, the quartermaster Octavian says that the stuffing of disemboweled teddy bears (yes, you read that right) foretold Percy's arrival: | |
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In one Zits strip, an unintelligible Pierce asks Jeremy for a favour after having the bands on his braces tightened. Jeremy remarks that he just agreed to either share his history notes or milk Pierce's hamster. | |
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In Brütal Legend, when Eddie tells other humans that he'd been brought to their world by a creature they name as Ormagöden, Lars explains that there is a legend among their people of a prophecized warrior who would be brought to them by Ormagöden. There is a debate regarding the translation to the legend, which leads to an Either/Or Prophecy of whether the warrior will destroy humanity or deliver it from demon oppression. | |
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In The Legend of Maxx, the main character Maxx is said to be either the destroyer of everything or a bowl of two goldfish by Remiel due to in-comic translation issues with the prophecies regarding Maxx. Remiel frequently repeats this possibility whenever it's mentioned that he could destroy the world in a vain attempt at hope. | |
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Translating the Correspondence of Fallen London is a somewhat... difficult task. Even aside from the fact that it tends to cause one's eyes to bleed and hair to ignite, and has been known to drive scholars mad. | |
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Arrival: the Chinese that are talking to the arrivals get spooked when they misinterpret one of their messages as the arrivals "bringing a weapon" when they meant "tool". | |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Willow gets a text from Xander while he's out on a date. It's one of the signals in a system they set up ages ago — but Willow is having trouble remembering what the code means. "Uh, this one's either 'I just got lucky, don't call me for a while' or 'my date's a demon who's trying to kill me.'" Knowing Xander's experience, they assume (rightly, it is revealed) that it is the latter, but given what we saw in the last scene with Xander, he could have easily sent the former. It is left to the audience to decide. | |
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Dingo Doodles: In "Making more FRIENDS", the party encounters a group speaking the Foreclaimer language and Gothi attempts to translate their speech for the party: | |
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Spy School: In Spy School Goes North, Ben is trying to stop a missile launch and sees a Russian phrase appear on the computer screen that "read either Ready to fire or Gargle the eggplant." | |
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From the 30th anniversary special skit with Captain Janeway and the cast of Frasier: | |
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The Hallelujah Trail: The cavalry's sign language interpreter communicating with chiefs Fire Barrels and Walks-Stooped-Over mistranslates their demands for "presents" (the wagon trail of whisky) as the Sioux wanting to offer a present but not actually having one to provide. He gets arrested after Oracle Jones speaks with them and clears up the misunderstanding. | |
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The Deep: In "The Baltic Sea Anomaly", the Aronnax has sailed in a radio dead zone and Will is watching Keiko explain something to the kids outside the sub: | |
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In an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sabrina is transported to one of Harvey's nightmares, where he is running towards a French text book but is unable to get near it (this is because they have a French exam coming and Harvey is having anxiety issues). Sabrina helps Harvey get the book, upon which he kips something in French. Sabrina then says to herself that Harvey either "said that he was happy to get his book back or he lost his Slinky" and concludes that it's she who should study more French. | |
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While shopping on Babylon 5 Garibaldi comes across a vendor selling what is either an aphrodisiac or a furniture polish, the translator can't tell. He does wind up buying it, but comments that it had better not leave a waxy residue. On anything. | |
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Sewer, Gas & Electric by Matt Ruff: The sentient AI that lives in Disneyland overhears a conversation behind the doors of Walt Disney's secret speakeasy — hey, It Makes Sense in Context, OK? — and applies its audio filtering subroutines. It decides that the conversation is either a) a conversation about dinner and drinks or b) override instructions telling it to kill 1000 people in ironic ways, and to construct a robotic race of "perfect Negroes." It chooses option B. Unlike most examples, it wasn't really mistaken or confused: it deliberately chose the option that would let it kill people, because it hated humans and was bored. | |
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