Showing posts with label by the way I think orla means flange here too - one of the Jurassic Parks was on and they translated 'outer rim' as the 'orla exterior'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label by the way I think orla means flange here too - one of the Jurassic Parks was on and they translated 'outer rim' as the 'orla exterior'. Show all posts

Monday, March 12, 2007

If only it was lost in translation

Why does bad music sound so much worse in a foreign language cover version?

You'd think no matter what you did to it, Have you ever really loved a woman couldn't get any more dreadful. I was in a store this morning and a Portuguese version of it was blaring without mercy. After a few minutes I realised it was on a continuous loop. It was on its fourth iteration by the time I fled.

There's got to be some EU working-conditions-directive that deals with this...