Annoying subtitles that bothers Me/Myself and I/ to see them here at this site

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Found some amusing subtitles that wanted to share. The first one I laughed so hard I fell off the bed.

This ML is the most gorgeous Chinese Actor I have seen in this short dramas. He’s in a life and death situation at the Hospital due to getting wet in cold rain.

Dr. Tells FL : ''He has 40 (degrees?) fever, and recent surgery (appendicitis) is (he) very weak. Be mental prepared; HE CAN BURNED TO DEATH!

Titles in dramas describing what is about.

FALLING YOU. instead of: FALLING FOR YOU.

MARRYING THE CEO BENEATH MY AGE: instead of: MARRYING THE CEO YOUNGER THAN I AM or MARRYING A CEO YOUNGER THAN ME.

IT’S OK DON’T CHEER UP! i’M ASUMING THEY MEAN: IS OK DON’T BE SAD.

THIS IS MY AND HIS STORY instead of: THIS IS OUR STORY.

ML TELLS FL: LET ME UNDRESS YOU…

FL responds: THERE YOU GO…ISNSTEAD OF: GO RIGHT AHEAD or YOU CAN DO SO (since both her hands were injured).

ML CEO was Stabbed. Dr, tells the family members.
HE HAS BEEN RESCUED. instead of: HE HAS BEEN STABILIZED.
HE’S OUT OF DANGER NOW.

verb

past tense: rescued; past participle: rescued

  1. save (someone) from a dangerous or distressing situation.

“firemen were called out to rescue a man trapped in the river”

THE FL TELLS THE CEO’S MOM.
I DON’T WANT HIM TO BE WITH ME OUT OF RESPONSIBILITY.
(better sentence)
I DON’T WANT HIM TO FEEL OBLIGATED TO ME.
I DON’T WANT HIM TO FEEL RESPONSIBLE FOR ME.(because of the unplanned pregnancy).

FL (a lawyer) tells SFL’
IS ILLEGAL TO MAKE FALSE ACCOUNTS.
instead of:
IS ILLEGAL (IS CONSIDERED A CRIME) TO MAKE FALSE STATEMENTS (in a court of Law).

SO like always evil Mother In Law tells a crowd of people.

She’s a hen with no eggs. No movement in her stomach.
FIRST she’s not an animal she’s a human being.
THEY CAN WRITE: SHE MUST BE INFERTILE. NOT EVEN A SIGN OF PREGNANCY (for 3 years).

The EVIL MIL tells FL.
MIXIAO, you go back now!
INSTEAD OF:
MIXIAO, YOU CAN LEAVE (THE HOUSE) NOW.

MAKES LOVE WITH HER.
instead of:
MAKES LOVE TO HER.

One subtitle read as:
Crushed eye sockets. instead of: LOST BOTH EYES.
I want to be quiet instead of I want to be alone.

ML TELLS FL
I’LL SEE how you can escape my palm.
This is incomplete a palm is a ‘‘tree’’ in the warm climate countries.
COMPLETE SENTENCE:
I’LL SEE HOW YOU CAN ESCAPE FROM THE PALM OF MY HAND.

I FEEL SUBBERS WHEN USING ANY SAYINGS SHOULD GET FAMILIARIZE WITH ITS MEANING, AND THE CORRECT WAY TO BE WRITTEN IN THE SUBTITLE.

FL TELLS ML.
IF YOU WANT TO THINK LIKE THAT but is better to write: THINK WHATEVER YOU WANT (it makes more sense in that sentence).

WE ARE OVERPOPULATED instead of. WE ARE OUTNUMBERED.

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According to the scene although sub was wrong I automatically know the correct subtitle.

What do I use?..(should be)
What do I tell him?
What should I tell him?

Let the past be the past…
Let the past stay in the past.

Hope you liked the gift I prepared…
Hope you like the gift I bought you.
Hope you like the gift I got you. (less formal)

A friend gave a gift to ML/FL. FL tells ML…
Let’s take it apart together… :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Let’s open it together.

Two days later…
Two days from now.
In two days…

Naturally it came back… :shushing_face: :thinking:
She will obviously come back.
No doubt, she will come back.
Of course, she will come back.

ML tells FL
I don’t have to have her…
I don’t have to marry you.

The father of the pregnant child ran away… :crazy_face: :crazy_face: :crazy_face:
The man that got her pregnant ran away.
The unborn child’s father ran away.
The father of the baby abandoned her.

I had anorexia today.
I couldn’t eat today.
I had no appetite today.

ML asked FL: What do you mean? she answered: Literal Meaning.
Literal meaning (has been used a LOT in Chinese dramas…)
It means just that.
I mean what you just heard.

FL tells ML
Let’s have a divorce…
Let’s GET a divorce.
Let’s get divorced.

I’ll go back when I get there.
I’ll be going in now.

Do you know what you are saying…? (FL wanted a ‘‘piece’’ of the ML)
Do you really know what you’re doing?

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Haven’t been around in a while bc subs has improved on YT; although the gender issues hasn’t improved at all. Her is referred as Him, and I instead of YOU. Is a struggle to keep up with the conversation/subtitle when you have to ‘‘re-wire’’ what you’re reading (some times at great speed). Ughhhh

They use a lot
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

The correct subtitle should be:
WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

DO WE NEED TO TELL HER/HIM?
This one is used a LOT in the subs when there’s a Doctor/serious surgery issues and others.
It should be:
SHOULD WE TELL HER/HIM?
Why should and not do? BECAUSE they DO need to tell the person. BUT should we tell her/him really means: LET’S TELL HER/HIM NOW. When using DO is more like ‘‘there’s no need for this person to know.’’ Hope you get it.

They use a lot WOULD instead of WILL

WOULD YOUR HUSBAND ACCEPT?

WILL YOUR HUSBAND ACCEPT?
This was a conversation between FL and her friend, and her husband was present there. It wasn’t a possible future event, but something that was happening at that PRESENT moment.

I can’t go back to you.

I can’t go back with you.

Although ‘‘to’’ may sound logical to most ‘‘readers’’ women are not a package. A package can be ‘‘send’’ back to you.

An old man said about the young man: A YOUNG MAN CAN BE TAUGHT.
The old man was saying that the YOUNG MAN WAS SMART. The subber tried to get as close as to what the old man said without accomplishing it.

THE THREE OF US EAT TOGETHER IN COLLEGE.
FL explained to other girls they could go to the College cafeteria to eat. What was going through the subbers mind at the time of writing the sub is a mystery to me.

DO YOU WANT TO SEE MY JOKE? is commonly used BUT I’m sure they mean:

ARE YOU MOCKING ME?
Based on the scene I’m 100% sure this is what they should be writing.

IF YOU WERE A MAN.
This is another one that based on scene I know correct sentence should be:
IF YOU WAS A REAL MAN…(you would…)

PS. Will continue another day; I feel extremely dizzy now ‘‘gotta’’ go back to bed for now so I don’t fall flat on my face to the floor).

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OMG laughed so heartily with the sub in this scene.

Evil 2nd ML kidnapped FL and called ML to come and ‘‘get her’’

ML tells 2ML

If her hair falls out. I will k ill you!

I guess subber wasn’t familiar with correct english saying:

If you touch even a hair in her head. I will k ill you!

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