Ko-en subtitlers, please put formality level in team notes

[shraddhasingh]

There are a lot of useful topics buried here. There’s one even on use of curse words.

Inappropriate use of vulgar words

[28] This is an old show (Giant), but these things keep happening to this day. We have mentioned this on a few occasions, but it seems it was not enough. The word “bitch” doesn’t come off so easily from everybody’s tongue as some English translators and Editors on Viki might think. Although American television is full of it and it’s almost a pet name for female friends on tv, the rest of the English speaking world is not amused. Particularly in the context of Korean dramas and culture, it is n…

Is swearing allowed while subbing a drama?

Let’s just say that you’re subbing a drama and it’s an intense scene, right? Are we able to use swear words (once in a while) to EMPHASIZE the sentence? I’ve seen a couple swear words now and then in K-dramas and I’m always taken aback because I thought it was not allowed. I’m probably not going to do it anyways because I don’t want to have a bad image (I do use “b*astard” once in a while), but I’m just wondering if I would be allowed to swear just to emphasize the sentence. I mean like litera…

Censored subtitles that affect the watching experience

I’ve been subbing in a project, and to my understanding (based on the story, the characters, their expressions etc, I don’t know the language that well) the actors use really offensive terms sometimes (it’s not a rom-com, obviously) but the English subtitles are really, really watered down. Since I don’t know the original language, I can’t convey what the actor says and means and I have to translate what I see. I think this really takes away from the experience of watching the movie/ drama and …