• ancap shark@lemmy.today
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      3 months ago

      The Brazilian translation I own replaced him with Thomas Jefferson. Kinda random but I found it funny

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        3 months ago

        What’s the translation of the previous “antelope/ant eloping” pun? I can’t imagine that works in other languages.

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          3 months ago

          “brutamonte” (rude or big strong person) and “bruta monte” (really big mount)

          It’s a very bad joke, but I don’t blame the translators. How would they ever translate this bit

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            3 months ago

            But they would know Thomas Jefferson? If I were tasked to choose the most famous U.S. political figures, I might have chosen Washington or Lincoln…

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              3 months ago

              I’m not from Brazil but from Germany and out of all the U.S. founding fathers Washington, Franklin and Jefferson were the ones I had heard of. Lincoln also, but he is not one of them, is he?

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                3 months ago

                No, Lincoln wasn’t a founding father. He was just a famous president who came later.

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                Lincoln is famous because he was the president during the US civil war and abolished slavery. This happened a century after us independence/founding.