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Look here? Look bad(ly)? Babelfish gave me "look times"...?
Thanks for the deixis ref. That was exactly where my problems were, doing the subtitles. There were some phrases that would sound a bit "off" in average conversation, but since I had no way of knowing whether they fit the particular character or, say, made perfect sense given a preceding scene, I left them as they were.
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Look here?Jackie, not all translations come out of some machine translation software. Gucken 'to peep, look'; mal (untranslatable particle). Translations offered: 'take a gander' (warning more foul parts) and 'lookee'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Ah! Thank you very much! Indeed, a literal translation all too often yields incorrect/humorous results.
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