• x4740N@lemm.eeOP
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    2 months ago

    Have you ever seen the movie “Idiocracy”

    america does have a higher population of idiots who think trump is jesus and that democrats have space lazers and weather altering technology

    • Zangoose@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      What does this have to do with translation? I love bashing the US as much as the next guy (after all, so does everyone else in the US when they aren’t being hypernationalist 🙃) but we’re talking about subtitle translation, not conspiracy theorists. From a population perspective, there are more people watching who speak American English. If localization only has the resources to target one dialect, that’s probably the one they’ll go for. Fan-subs are another story (and are usually better anyway)